A Man-Made Ruination
By SONJA KARKAR
(founder and president of Women for Palestine in Melbourne, Australia)
CounterPunch
"No one seems to hear the cries from Gaza enough to act, despite the reports that talk about imminent economic collapse, dangerous food shortages, total aid dependency and impending humanitarian disaster. Neither the cries nor the reports appear in the headlines or news alerts in our mainstream media. And, while the statistics make shocking reading when they do emerge, it is the cries that we should be hearing because they come from people like us--real flesh and blood people who bleed, feel pain and grieve. They are the cries that give rise to the statistics, the cries of Palestinians no less human and no less vulnerable than any one of us would be as prisoners of Israel's merciless occupation.......
Despite all the warnings and evidence on the ground, Gaza continues to slide dangerously towards a humanitarian disaster and world governments have done absolutely nothing to stop it. There has not been a word of censure against Israel and the international community's craven silence will only embolden Israel to continue its cruel, punitive actions against Gaza's already traumatised and dying people. We can choose to hear their cries or ignore them, but we certainly cannot say that "we did not know". "
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