How do we as human beings come to terms with genocide? We research it and catalogue its atrocities. We trace it back to campaigns of racism and violence. And still we wonder how it could have been done. Are we the same people who drove the Cherokee Nation on its Trail of Tears? Would we have forced a million Armenians into the desert to die? Could we have looked the other way while 6 Million Jews were imprisoned and slaughtered?
Now, we don't have to wonder about what we would have done during mass murders of the past. Our own country is behind the current genocide of the Palestinian people.
England and the US created Israel as their colony in the oil rich Middle East. By 1948, Jewish militias were using terrorist tactics to clear 750,000 Palestinians from the land they had lived on for centuries. The result was called the Nakba, or catastrophe.
Israel has been using terror and ethnic cleansing ever since. At the same time, England and the US have funded and encouraged Israel's apartheid regime, no matter how many millions have suffered or died under its brutal occupation.
There are now about 6 million Jews and 6 million Palestinians in the Holy Land. England and the US must end their colony's war crimes and make peace, like what was finally done in South Africa and in Northern Ireland.
Each generation gets a chance to do the right thing when its time comes. Stand up against the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Fred Nagel