BLOODBATH IN GAZA: ABNORMAL BECOMES NORMAL
As world powers watch the slaughter of Gaza's besieged population in deathly silence, ordinary people are shocked at the levels of barbarity displayed by Israel.
Gruesome and grotesque to the extreme. Visuals in mainstream media of entire families including little babies being blown to pieces, cannot but move viewers. Their sense of outrage will most certainly have been fueled by being aware that tons of explosives raining down on homes, hospitals, schools and mosques can be halted if world leaders have the guts to pull the rug below Netanyahu's feet.
However the likelihood of the Obamas and Camerons reading the riot act is as remote as Israel voluntarily conceding that its policies against the Palestinians, is responsible for the crisis. The reluctance on the part of Western leaders to rein in Israel's murderous leaders is fortunately not shared by their citizenry. Reports indicate that protest meetings directed against Israel's carpet bombing of Gaza, have and are being held across Europe as well as America.
The mood at these public rallies is in sharp contrast to the lame excuses offered by sitting governments. To illustrate how sharply pointed these views are, this is what South Africa's well known human rights activist Breyten Breytenbach is quoted to have said: "Israel's smothering of Palestinians by killing, theft, expropriation, occupation, incarceration, torture and terror - is the defining international issue morally and politically of our times".
It gets more pointed if well-known radio host, columnist and political analyst Eusebius McKaiser's tweet is considered: "Actually the analogy between apartheid South Africa and Israel is not accurate. Israel is worse. The Nats didn't rain bombs on us".