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
