July 4
GUEST: Miranda Cleland,
advocacy officer at Defense for Children International -
Palestine and leader of the No Way to Treat a Child campaign
that advocates for the human rights of Palestinian children.
Defense for Children
International/Palestine
Why are these human rights groups collecting evidence and compiling reports about the treatment of Palestinian children? The Israel/US killing machine has slaughtered 15,000 children in Gaza already, and the leader of the genocide is speaking to the US Congress this week.
There isn't any question about whether the Israeli Army has butchered children, whether it was with US made bombs, tank shells or killer drones. Who on earth would reach any other conclusion?
But the details and pictures are still missing. Americans live in an artificial environment. The few corporations that dominate all US news media always report the same story. Pictures of wounded, starving children always turn out to be from Ukraine, not Palestine. We can live our lives knowing that tens of thousands of Palestinian children are facing death, as long as we are not reminded of it. And that is something our Pentagon dominated news would never do.
What makes a genocide? How do people look the other way? Defense for Children International makes looking the other way just a little bit harder. If the children were white and spoke English, this slaughter would never have started. If there is anything that this genocide has taught us, it is that racism is an integral part of the US support for the killing fields of Gaza.
