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To the editor:
Why are the United States Congress and President actively resisting a cease fire in Gaza? Why is revenge so easily justified and sold to people as a righteous cause even though the death toll surpasses 13,300 people in Gaza, 5,500 of which are children? How do we as a nation ignore innocent suffering and growing displacement of 2.2 million families since Oct. 7? Why is raising such questions portrayed as antisemitic? Why isn't condemnation of the horrible actions of Hamas against the Israeli people understood as equally part of such questioning? Please understand that the violence of both Hamas and Israel (specifically Zionist Nationalists) must end.
The unbridled killing of innocents unleashed by Hamas on October 7, was terrorism. Why is it that the US sends military equipment costing in the billions of dollars to unleash on Hamas, but seems to look the other way at the carnage directed at the innocent families and children of Palestine? Why is it that bombing of Gaza's hospitals, schools, homes, refugee camps and even those fleeing the destruction isn't also seen as an act of terrorism? It certainly strikes terror into the children and families, loosing loved ones and limbs as they were attempting to make a good life?
Israel and the U.S. are complicit in violating the Geneva Convention.
There are no easy answers or quick fixes to end the hatred that has grown between Hamas and Israel. However, we do know that investing in continued violence that harms innocent children and families is not the way towards peace. In the words of John Lennon, "Peace is not something you wish for. It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." If we are unable to embody that way of living, more senseless revenge and rage will plague our planet for present and future generations.
In this season of many cultures' holiday celebrations, please take a moment(s) to call for a justice, freedom, dignity and a way of all living peacefully together, regardless of religion, race, gender, or country.
Darwin Dyce
Ghent