Now Israel has killed over 34,700 Palestinians in its war on Gaza during the last seven months and taken seize of Rafah, the point from where Palestinians can go only into Egypt, where they are not welcome. It cannot be more humiliating for the Palestinians. The humanitarian aid has also been disrupted once again. The manner in which war crimes have been committed brazenly by Israel in this war by attacking hospitals, killing large number of women and children, choking off essential supplies forcing people to starve, have not been seen since the holocaust or the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings. Yet, there is no outcry. So called democracies of the world, with the exceptoin of South Africa, which was conscientious enough to take Israel to International Court of Justice, have silently witnessed the ongoing massacre of Palestinians.
When I returned my Filipino Magsaysay Award, which is funded by Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, and the degrees from Syracuse University, NY and University of California, Berkeley a few months back protesting the complicity of United States government in Israel’s war on Gaza I was just hoping that much louder voices will be raised against the war. As a student I’ve seen protests on Berkeley campus in 1991 against the father George Bush government’s attack on Iraq. The US has a long and vibrant history of anti-war protests beginning with the protests against the war on Vietnam. Large gatherings have been a hallmark of anti-war protests in…
