Starving the Children
The United Staes has reached a new low in its foreign policy. We are starving tens of thousands of children to death in Gaza. First we destroyed their schools and colleges. Then we blasted their houses into dust. We demolished all their hospitals and medical facilities, and destroyed their access to potable water. At this point, we have turned the Gaza Strip into a killing field, with millions of Palestinians digging through the rubble just to find their children.
Of course, there have been other holocausts in history. But even the Nazis tried to cover up their mass extermination of Jews and Romany. Towards the end of World War II, they buried millions in secret graves. Even the Nazis knew that their slaughter was beyond any boundaries of human kind. Even the Nazis knew enough to feel shame.
We, as citizens of the most powerful military empire the world has ever seen, have complete access to pictures and stories of this Palestinian holocaust. Our mainstream media doesn't dwell on it much, but the charnel house of Gaza isn't kept a secret. An internet search of "children" and "Gaza" will fill your mind with the unbearable images of our country's war crimes. Yet few in our government seem to care very much. They sit around and spout Israeli talking points while collecting their hundreds of thousands in bribes from Zionist billionaires.
And we are oblivious to what our government is doing, as we turn a blind eye to this wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people.
Fred Nagel
letter to the editor
letter to the editor
The SS Troopers
I was hospitalized last week. It is an unusual time when one gets to watch other people up close and working on you. Their intensity, all focused on what happens to you, is humbling. Could I be as selflessly dedicated to a person I had never met before?
It made me think about the doctors and nurses who saved hundreds during 9/11. Or of the medical workers who risked their lives by working with COVID patients. In some ways these people are the best of what we are.
Unfortunately, the worst of what we are is never far away. To think that a country like Israel has destroyed 36 hospitals in Gaza's is like reading the Nuremberg War Tribunals. Do human beings do such things? Do they end up slaughtering 1,400 Palestinian healthcare workers, or dropping 2,000 bombs on people waiting in line for their life giving care? Who are these monsters? And what will they say when their apartheid state finally comes to its just ending? That they were only "following orders"?
But they are doing more than that. The SS troopers of this century's worst genocide are often filmed dancing and singing around their victims. They seem to take delight in shooting into lines of starving children. They are serial killers, all armed and protected by the one country capable of stopping the butchery, our very own United States, land of the free and home of the brave.
Join our peace vigil every Saturday from 12:30 to 1:30 at the sidewalk of Elting Library in New Paltz.
Fred Nagel
I was hospitalized last week. It is an unusual time when one gets to watch other people up close and working on you. Their intensity, all focused on what happens to you, is humbling. Could I be as selflessly dedicated to a person I had never met before?
It made me think about the doctors and nurses who saved hundreds during 9/11. Or of the medical workers who risked their lives by working with COVID patients. In some ways these people are the best of what we are.
Unfortunately, the worst of what we are is never far away. To think that a country like Israel has destroyed 36 hospitals in Gaza's is like reading the Nuremberg War Tribunals. Do human beings do such things? Do they end up slaughtering 1,400 Palestinian healthcare workers, or dropping 2,000 bombs on people waiting in line for their life giving care? Who are these monsters? And what will they say when their apartheid state finally comes to its just ending? That they were only "following orders"?
But they are doing more than that. The SS troopers of this century's worst genocide are often filmed dancing and singing around their victims. They seem to take delight in shooting into lines of starving children. They are serial killers, all armed and protected by the one country capable of stopping the butchery, our very own United States, land of the free and home of the brave.
Join our peace vigil every Saturday from 12:30 to 1:30 at the sidewalk of Elting Library in New Paltz.
Fred Nagel
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