Sergey
Ponomarev for N.Y Times / click on photo to enlarge
Relatives
of a boy killed Thursday in explosions at a UN school sheltering Gaza residents
grieving over his body at a hospital.
With a death toll of over 800 dead and climbing daily, the
photos from Gaza are like a Goya painting depicting the desperation and frenzy
of Palestinians existing in a living hell with no apparent escape ~ surrounded
by solders with their guns pointed ~ while complicit Israeli's watch on
hilltops from beyond their Iron Dome and celebrate with their neighbors their
barely concealed ethnic cleansing in triumphal glee. The Palestinians most certainly have the right to their self defense: Allen L Roland, Ph.D
Francisco
Goya's Third of May, 1808 / click on picture to enlarge
Goya's
masterpiece Third of May,1808 fully captures the desperation and despair of an
entrapped Spanish people facing their eminent death at the hands of their
brutal French occupiers. To fully understand the significance of Goya's classic
painting of repression as well as its similarities today, please watch this
magnificent 12 minute video ~ BBC The Private Life Of A Masterpiece - Goya's Third of
May 1808 (2/4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qu1iehzdDE
And when you watch this
video, you will realize what that Spaniard is crying
out to his French executioners ~ and it's
the same cry the entrapped Palestinians are crying out to their brutal Israeli
occupiers ~ WHY?
And it’s a
question that the world must soon find an answer ~ for this long festering cancer of illegal repression and
apartheid is spreading and must end soon before it's too late.
It
is apparent that this in your face illegal Israeli land grab must be turned from a stumbling
block into a stepping stone toward world
peace before the Palestinians are completely eradicated ~ which appears to be
the long term goal of the Israeli Zionists. See
evidence of this death yard of angels: http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/gazas-birthplace-saints-deathyard-angels/24276
The
recent invasion of Gaza testifies to the depraved and morally bankrupt
character of the Zionist regime in Israel. The government headed by Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu represents an isolated and demoralized ruling class
that has lost its head and has no answer to the crisis it confronts except
disorientated and homicidal outbursts of violence and ethnic cleansing ~
which they laughingly call 'mowing the lawn'.
Even
the son of a famous Zionist general, Miko Peled, shares that the current preoccupation of Israel with Iran
is a smokescreen to cover up apartheid with Palestine, that the only law that
applies to Palestinians is Israeli military law and that only a bottom up
American demand for human rights and democracy can change or break the
Israeli garrison apartheid state and
its AIPAC supporters. See article: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/19/a-zionist-generals-son-shatters-the-myths/
This
mass slaughter against a defenseless Palestinian population serves only to
deepen the revulsion and hostility toward Zionism throughout the Middle East,
around the world and among Jewish workers in Israel itself, What will this map
look like in 2016 ~ particularly when on Friday, the US Senate voted 100-0 to support Israel's
recent invasion of occupied Gaza.
Perhaps only poetry can
adequately describe the living hell of occupied Palestine;
"Occupation, curfew,
settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive
strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks
genocide with the words of a quiet technician.
Occupation means that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY, or any open street
near to the gates of snipers tower. It means that you cannot trust the future
or have faith that the past will always be there.
Occupation means you live out your live under military rule, and the
constant threat of death, a quick death from a snipers bullet or a rocket
attack from an M16.
A crushing, suffocating death, a slow bleeding death in an ambulance stopped
for hours at a checkpoint. A dark death, at a torture table in an Israeli
prison: just a random arbitrary death.
A cold calculated death: from a curable disease. A thousand small deaths while
you watch your family dying around you.
Occupation means that every day you die, and the world watches in
silence. As if your death was nothing, as if you were a stone falling in the
earth, water falling over water.
And if you face all of this death and indifference and keep your humanity, and
your love and your dignity and YOU refuse to surrender to their terror, then
you know something of the courage that is Palestine.” ~
Suheir
Hammad
Allen
L Roland
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/gaza-living-hell-with-no-escape.html
Freelance
Alternative Press Online columnist and heart centered
spiritual counselor Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews,
speaking engagements and private Skype
consultations at allen@allenroland.com
