The Day the World Became Gaza

[IndianaGreen]

Published on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Al Jazeera English

The Day the World Became Gaza

by Ali Abunimah

Since Israel's invasion and massacre of over 1,400 people in Gaza 18 months ago, dubbed Operation Cast Lead, global civil society movements have stepped up their campaigns for justice and solidarity with Palestinians.

Governments, by contrast, carried on with business as usual, maintaining a complicit silence.

Israel's lethal attack on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza may change that, spurring governments to follow the lead of their people and take unprecedented action to check Israel's growing lawlessness.

Lip service

One of the bitterest images from Operation Cast Lead was that of smiling European Union heads of government visiting Jerusalem and patting Ehud Olmert, the then Israeli prime minister, on the back as white phosphorus still seared the flesh of Palestinian children a few miles away.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/03

[EFerrari]

1. Imo, this is an important idea to understand because it is driving

the change of mood in the world.

The IDF treated those activists in public as they treat Palestinians unseen and every day.

[ConsAreLiars]

2. Well said. And because the peace and justice workers were from so many nations,

every nation's media has to at least take a peek at what is being done to Palestinians. And thus nudging the world to take a clearer look at the 'peace and justice' reality of the Palestinian people.