Since the inception of the Genocide in Gaza, I've been keenly aware that the humans and the animals in Gaza have been suffering equally from the daily murderous assaults of the Israeli Occupation Forces. Now, those still left from both the human and animal communities are suffering side-by-side from a famine deliberately contrived by the Israelis, and designed to kill every living being within the Gaza Strip with all possible speed.
I was born in Dublin, Ireland. It is only a few generations ago that our Irish ancestors suffered through the same ghastly experience: a famine inflicted on them by their occupiers, while the forces of occupation published learned articles in their newspapers explaining how the whole circumstance was completely unavoidable, and mainly the fault of those suffering the evils of the famine.
Today, we don’t have a time machine to take us back to when we could correct these evils, but we do have perfectly serviceable means of the correcting the evils we are witnessing in Gaza today. That opportunity to assist the starving in Gaza is being blockaded daily, however, by the Israeli-U.S.-Empire-Alliance.
Meanwhile, the Ruling Classes of the Global North tut-tut their mild reproofs of the Israelis' criminality, and the Talking Heads of that same Global North write the same learned articles in the same newspapers that explained away the Irish Famine of not-so-ago.
I’ve long found that along with human intelligence comes a proportionate reprehensible potential for evil behavior, i.e. malice for malice’s sake. With our four-legged friends there definitely is a beautiful absence of that undesirable distinctly human trait. While animals, including cats and dogs, can react violently, it is typically due to reactive distrust/dislike or necessity/sustenance. But leave it to us humans, with our higher capacity for intelligence, to commit a spiteful act, if only because we can.
Meantime, on a mindbogglingly massive scale, human beings are being seen and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic, relatively civilized and supposedly Christian nations. And it’s even easier for a conscience to do when one considers another an innately lower lifeform.
A somewhat similar reprehensible inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in prolongedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken regions. In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news. It’s an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.
With each news report of the daily civilian death toll from unrelenting bombardment, or even systematic starvation, one can feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally since I began regularly consuming news products in the late 1980s.
All lives and needless suffering should matter to us all; however, that’s much easier for a conscience to dismiss when one considers another an innately much lower lifeform. And, although Israel's use of systematic starvation as a means of war and ethnic cleansing against innocent non-combatants, especially children, may occasionally be internationally 'condemned' as ‘intolerable’, the atrocities will ultimately be tolerated, if not implicitly encouraged, by those nations with any ability to hinder the Israeli state's crimes against humanity.
Ergo, such condemnations — which are relatively few when considering the seriousness and scope of the atrocities committed — are but paper tigers, if not simply the cruelest frauds.
Beautiful, sad and gut-wrenching. I too mourn for your losses and the brutality visited upon you by the aggressor who is void of empathy or humanity. I wish I could feed you too. ♥️♥️
Your humanity, 🇵🇸 a lesson for the world 🌎
Since the inception of the Genocide in Gaza, I've been keenly aware that the humans and the animals in Gaza have been suffering equally from the daily murderous assaults of the Israeli Occupation Forces. Now, those still left from both the human and animal communities are suffering side-by-side from a famine deliberately contrived by the Israelis, and designed to kill every living being within the Gaza Strip with all possible speed.
I was born in Dublin, Ireland. It is only a few generations ago that our Irish ancestors suffered through the same ghastly experience: a famine inflicted on them by their occupiers, while the forces of occupation published learned articles in their newspapers explaining how the whole circumstance was completely unavoidable, and mainly the fault of those suffering the evils of the famine.
Today, we don’t have a time machine to take us back to when we could correct these evils, but we do have perfectly serviceable means of the correcting the evils we are witnessing in Gaza today. That opportunity to assist the starving in Gaza is being blockaded daily, however, by the Israeli-U.S.-Empire-Alliance.
Meanwhile, the Ruling Classes of the Global North tut-tut their mild reproofs of the Israelis' criminality, and the Talking Heads of that same Global North write the same learned articles in the same newspapers that explained away the Irish Famine of not-so-ago.
I’ve long found that along with human intelligence comes a proportionate reprehensible potential for evil behavior, i.e. malice for malice’s sake. With our four-legged friends there definitely is a beautiful absence of that undesirable distinctly human trait. While animals, including cats and dogs, can react violently, it is typically due to reactive distrust/dislike or necessity/sustenance. But leave it to us humans, with our higher capacity for intelligence, to commit a spiteful act, if only because we can.
Meantime, on a mindbogglingly massive scale, human beings are being seen and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic, relatively civilized and supposedly Christian nations. And it’s even easier for a conscience to do when one considers another an innately lower lifeform.
A somewhat similar reprehensible inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in prolongedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken regions. In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news. It’s an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.
With each news report of the daily civilian death toll from unrelenting bombardment, or even systematic starvation, one can feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally since I began regularly consuming news products in the late 1980s.
All lives and needless suffering should matter to us all; however, that’s much easier for a conscience to dismiss when one considers another an innately much lower lifeform. And, although Israel's use of systematic starvation as a means of war and ethnic cleansing against innocent non-combatants, especially children, may occasionally be internationally 'condemned' as ‘intolerable’, the atrocities will ultimately be tolerated, if not implicitly encouraged, by those nations with any ability to hinder the Israeli state's crimes against humanity.
Ergo, such condemnations — which are relatively few when considering the seriousness and scope of the atrocities committed — are but paper tigers, if not simply the cruelest frauds.
Beautiful, sad and gut-wrenching. I too mourn for your losses and the brutality visited upon you by the aggressor who is void of empathy or humanity. I wish I could feed you too. ♥️♥️
Not even a genocide was capable of removing decency and integrity from the heart of a little girl and her wise sister!