The consequences of captivity

… an appeal to the international community to act urgently to halt an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.

from Richard Falk

Recent developments in Gaza should be troubling to anyone with a common sense of humanity. It is particularly anguishing to me as an American Jew that the prolonged, systematic, and cruel abuse of Palestinians in Gaza risks becoming the world’s latest holocaust.

I say this with an awareness of the deservedly special status that the Nazi Holocaust has in our moral imagination, due to its unconcealed genocidal intent, systematic and sustained cruelty, as well as its reliance on the mentality and instruments of modernity.

Recent developments in Gaza vividly express Israel’s deliberate intention to subject an entire captive population to life endangering conditions. I do not make this comparison lightly, but as an appeal to the international community to act urgently to halt an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. – More.

Cross-posted @ Filasteen