{"id":7372,"date":"2024-06-01T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2024-06-13T07:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T23:43:25","slug":"327-chris-hedges-letter-to-the-children-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffangiegoh.com\/?p=7372","title":{"rendered":"327. Remembering Children Massacred in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

1<\/sup>\u00a0Hear what the\u00a0Lord\u00a0says:<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rise, plead your case before the mountains,<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and let the hills hear your voice.<\/strong><\/span>
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>Hear, you mountains, the case of the\u00a0Lord,<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and you enduring foundations of the earth,<\/strong><\/span>
\nfor the\u00a0Lord\u00a0has a case against his people,<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and he will contend with Israel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cO my people, what have I done to you?<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In what have I wearied you? Answer me!<\/strong><\/span>
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>For I brought you up from the land of Egypt<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and redeemed you from the house of slavery,<\/strong><\/span>
\nand I sent before you Moses,<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Aaron, and Miriam.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

8\u00a0<\/sup>He has told you, O mortal, what is good,<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of you<\/strong><\/span>
\nbut to do justice<\/span> and to love kindness<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and to walk humbly with your God?<\/strong><\/span> [Micah 6:1-4, 8<\/strong><\/span>, NRSV<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[L] So-called ‘safe zone’ in Rafah. [R] Children killed in latest Israeli bombing of refugee camp in Rafah (<\/span>Sulaiman Ahmed<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Daily, as Christians, we read and reflect, “with the Bible in one hand, and a newspaper in the other”.\u00a0 Today, these headlines, and plenty more, jump forth from the pages: “Are They ‘Hamas’?” 12,300 children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza; Israel is carrying out a horrific ground invasion of Rafah; American- Israeli bombs incinerate women and children in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’; Israel massacres children which the Western Press says is fine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dehumanisation of Palestinians continues to be normalised by Western powers. And the Zionist go-to label of “anti-semitism” as a counter-offensive against any and all criticisms of their ruthless slaughter of innocent Palestinian children is over-employed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is, Israel is sick, and the United States of America is actively aggravating Israeli sickness. The American-Israeli alliance is holding the world in ransom. It has been going on for way too long. It needs to stop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli strategic assault on Gaza has now driven the innocent population to Rafah. On May 23, the IDF (Israel Defense Force) told Palestinians in Rafah to move to an area it designated as a \u201csafe area.\u201d This is an area the IDF had just bombed a refugee camp, <\/em>setting ablaze tents housing families and the UNRWA office.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n