An estimated 40,000 Palestinians gathered in Gaza today (read the entire article for the figures listed below), as they have every week for the past
year, in order to celebrate the anniversary of their Great March of Return rallies protesting their 12 year confinement.
As always, they were met by armed Israeli tanks and soldiers on the opposite side of the fence. That’s right. It’s sling shots against tanks. And it’s not really a “border.” Israel has no internationally recognized borders. Palestinians and the Israeli military face-off at a prison fence.
During today’s rally, 4 more people were shot dead, 3 of them teenagers. 40 more people were wounded.
Over the past twelve months, the Israeli army has murdered 194 people, including women, children (41), medics (3) and journalists (2).
More than 29,000 people have been wounded, over 7,000 by live ammunition resulting in 120+ limb amputations. Evidence indicates that much of this ammunition is of the exploding variety deliberately used to cause maximum tissue damage.
Let that number sink in: 29,000 people shot, many permanently injured and maimed for protesting their illegal imprisonment.
It’s called mass murder, maybe even genocide. The one thing it is NOT is
Israeli self-defense.
Israel is not protecting a border; it is executing ethnic cleansing. According to Israeli sources, as reported by U.N. investigators, “No Israeli civilian deaths or injuries were reported during or resulting from the
demonstrations.” Only 4 Israeli soldiers have been injured, none killed.
So the score is Israel — 29,000; Palestinians — 4. Not much of a match, if you ask me.
As usual, the world remains silent in the face of Israeli bloodletting. Well, 
almost. The United Nations recently released a 22 page report from its Human Rights Counsel detailing and condemning Israel’s persistent violation of “international humanitarian law.”
The Council concluded that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. But since when has a U.N. report changed national behavior?
The Israeli government immediately condemned the report, as it always does whenever anyone tries to call them to account.
Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, responded with the tried-and-true “poor me, I’m the victim” defense, insisting that the “council is blinded by hatred of Israel.”
No nation has fine-tuned the self-pitying instrument of perpetual victimhood as masterfully as Israel. It is her favorite tool in the propaganda
arsenal. If you can’t dispute the facts, attack the messenger knowing full well that your fellow bullies will eagerly join you in the fray.
Sure enough, the United States remains Israel’s favorite partner in international bullying, having consistently blocked such investigations whenever possible.
And the #1 American enablers of Israel’s brutal criminality is not the pro-Zioniist lobby AIPAC but the conservative Christian church. (Check out these article: here and here and here and here. )
So, once again, just as the German Christian church embraced Adolf Hitler; just as Christians of the Confederacy defended slavery; just as the Pilgrims of Massachusetts Bay slaughtered Native Americans to make way for their New Zion; so American evangelicals blissfully bless Israel’s weekly massacre of encaged Palestinians without a twinge of doubt, shame, or guilt.
There is no greater testament to the death of the evangelical social conscience and the self-absorption of American Christianity.
