"How Many Deaths Will it Take Till He Knows That Too Many People Have Died?"

It defies belief, and invokes pure revultion and horror in the depth of my guts. Last night, the Israeli army destroyed a school. 40 innocent civilians, most of them children, dead. It cannot even be claimed that the school was a centre for Islamic extremism - it was a school owned and operated by the United Nations. This is not the first time that the UN has been targeted by Israel of course: in 1948, when Jerusalem was designated an "International City", they assasinated the UN's man who was sent their to govern, so that they could lay claim to the city themselves. Again, when the UN sent observers to Lebanon in 2006, to watch and record Israeli attacks, they were blown up in a missile strike, so that no one from the international community could actually witness the barbarity of the assault.

It is time that the murderers were brought to justice, and be made to pay for their crimes against humanity, for that is exactly what these atrocities are. Other nations, other leaders, are brought to The Hague to answer for crimes which are far less in severity, and yet Israel remains immune, not only to justice and prosecution, but to negative judgments by the rest of the global community.

Make no mistake, this is not a defensive reaction on the part of the Israeli government, it is genocide, pure and simple. In the last decade, 20 Israeli's have died from Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza. That is 20 people too many, I agree. Compared to the 600 Palestinian dead within the last 7 days, it is paltry, however. Does my stance in regards to this conflict make me an "Anti-Semite"? Hardly. This has nothing to do with the Jewish faith, and has everything to do with a government that has, for the last 60 years, made the massacre of innocent civilians routine. In modern human history, the actions of the government of Israel are almost without compare. They are racist, and yet a comparison to the former Apartheid governence of South Africa seems too soft. In one of the most bitterly ironic passages of history, the only regime that is comparable is that of Nazi Germany. Well, one could make the case that the blood letting in the Balkans in the mid 1990's also fits the bill, but there is a sort of twisted poetic symmetry to the Nazi comparison. It is the Holocaust that gives Israel its "get out of jail free card" whenever they decide to spill more civilian blood, enabling them to perform a Holocaust of their own.

I wept this morning for Palestine, for the 40 civilians who went to school that day to die. and those tears make me anti-semitic. How the world can stand by and let this atrocity continue is beyond my comprehension. It is time it was stopped. Sadly, no world leader will risk taking the lead for fear of that label of anti-semitism...well, keep this in mind: there are TWO Semitic languages in the world, Hebrew, and Arabic. As the shells rain down on Gaza, and claim more lives, do not fear being called an anti-semite by Israel - in the designed slaughter of Arabs, they are actually the worlds foremost anti-semitic state. Again, another irony there. Again, no laughter.

SALAAM ALEICHUM Palestine. Not everyone in the world is against you. I am proud to say this, I SUPPORT PALESTINE, AND AM AGAINST ISRAEL. It is time that the Palestinian people were given the very basic human rights we like to claim we deliver to the world: Salaam (Peace), Adl (Justice), Mussawat (Equality), and Hurria (Freedom).