Gaza (back) on my mind
So far, I have done exactly two actual (teensy tiny) things to express my deep sadness about the tragic situation in Gaza. I went to one peace march in Boston and I gave a donation to one of the groups I saw represented there, the one that seemed most in line with my own simultaneously anti-Hamas, anti-Israeli government policy position. They’re called American Jews for a Just Peace (but they accept memberships also from non-Jews like me).
On their mailing list the other day, I got this moving letter, published in the Cambridge Chronicle, by Richard Hess, who did much more than I did, he was arrested in the “die-in” at the Israeli consulate. The son of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, he asks “Why do we just watch as Palestinians are brutalized? Why are we unable to empathize?” As to why he was willing to be arrested “I refuse to be a good man doing nothing. I am screaming, ‘These people are dying!’”
As Mosaic producer Jamal Dajani reminds us in his latest blogpost, “The war has ended, but life in Gaza has not returned to normal. Thousands of people remain homeless, and many still remain hungry. Their stories have all but disappeared from US media coverage.”
A good time to remember that it’s our US military aid to Israel that made all the killing possible. We need to take some responsibility.
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