Writer asks for humanity to be shown to people of Gaza
Dear editor: Hitler murdered 6 million Jewish people during World War II. The world expressed shock and disbelief when the atrocities committed in the concentration camps were discovered. Jewish people were killed in mass shooting operations, through deliberate privation of food and water, through brutal treatment and the gas chambers.
Compare the plight of the Jewish people then to the plight of the people in Gaza today. There are roughly 2 million people crammed onto a narrow strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea that are prohibited from leaving the area. Food and medical supplies are literally within sight, but none are allowed to enter while the population experiences starvation and medical trauma exacerbated by daily bombing of schools, hospitals, and areas crowded with people. No part of Gaza is exempt from aerial bombing and assaults with tanks and small arms fire.
The Israeli military claims they are seeking Hamas militants, but their indiscriminate shelling often kills dozens of innocents, leaving many more wounded with no confirmation of any Hamas casualties. Genocide is the only term to adequately express what is going on in Gaza.
Why are people not shocked to see starving men, women, and children when food is readily available, but not allowed in? Why are people not horrified to see people arriving at bombed out hospitals in need of medical supplies readily available, but not allowed in? Why is America condoning all of this wonton killing by supplying the bombs and standing idly by watching? At the same time we honor the troops that ended Hitlerâs Holocaust, we watch the Netanyahu slaughter of Gazans. The president supports Netanyahu. Where are our congressman and senators? Where are our values and our sense of decency?
Bryce Luchterhand
Unity
