No forgiveness! No redemption!
It is not often I will favour a Daily Express front page. But this is one of those occasions. That this harrowing image and the accompanying condemnatory message is published by one of the most rabidly right-wing newspapers in the UK affords it a particular power. A great crime is being committed in Gaza. A crime that does indeed shame us all. A crime so immense it touches and taints every single person on the planet. A crime so heinous it poisons the very idea of humankind.
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The perpetrator of this coldly methodical mass murder in Gaza is the State of Israel and the monstrous machinery of destruction and death it has assembled with the active collusion of the UK government, among others. We are all implicated. We are all guilty of being alive and present in a world where such unconscionable cruelty can be just another item on the rolling news. History will ask how we could let this happen. Our children and grandchildren will demand to know what we did to stop the slaughter. Were we able to answer, we would have to say with eyes cast down in shame, "Not enough!".
We are all implicated. We are all guilty of being alive and present in a world where such unconscionable cruelty can be just another item on the rolling news.
For those commanding, committing, colluding in, and condoning the atrocities, there is no forgiveness and no redemption. But the rest of us cannot be at ease. For if this is permitted, can there be anything which isn't?
Thank you Peter. What is happening in Gaza appears to be revenge by - Israel - in response to another vengeful group - Hamas. And so the violence continues unabated. Who suffers most?.. the innocent babies and children dying in their thousands. It happens all over this violent planet. People who purport to be religious are quite happy to kill and trash others who are in their way. It is said that religion is the biggest cause of bloodshed on the planet. I saw a program about the descendants of the Nazis who ran the concentration camps. They wept and felt such guilt when they saw the results of their relatives handiwork.I have a horrible feeling we are seeing it all again and history wont be kind to us.
For Scotland and her weans!
The UN Convention on Genocide of 1948 identifies
five punishable acts: one of them is “Complicity in Genocide”.
All politicians should know that Signatories to the Convention have a legal obligation “to prevent and to punish” the crime of genocide.
Failure to do is deemed to be Complicity in Genocide.
There is no statute of limitations for Complicity in Genocide