For the record, I agree with femi here completely.
It reminds me of the massacre a few months ago up north in Nigeria, where a group of peaceful protesters were shot down by the army in a massacre.
I am not saying one is worse than the other; just that an army can get a green light from its leaders to use excessive force, and here it is definitely the case. The leadership—netanyahu—wants to quash any Palestinian resistance, and all he'll do is create more and more hatred that will not go away as long as the people are living in misery.
It is shameful, and it is now true that jewish americans, like myself, are strongly opposed to this govt and everything it represents.
ken
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/
From: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Femi Kolapo <kolapof@uoguelph.ca>
Reply-To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tuesday 15 May 2018 at 18:07
To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Deadly protests in Gaza- Sharpeville Revisited
How can all the 30,000 protesters be "legitimate targets" to be shot to death? What is the justification? self defense? Just "war"? Existential danger from molotov cocktail, stone throwing, and sling shooting crowd of protesters who already announced they would be protesting? or perhaps all the protesters were suicide bombers because they have "links to Hamas" and were approaching the fence to suicide- attack Israeli soldiers?
All the dead were shot, not on the Israeli side of the fence, but on the Palestinian side. What is the ethics, the morality, the philosophy that supports this? And what pastor or reverend minister would say "Praise the Lord" it is prophesy being fulfilled' as it seems some prominent American ones are currently saying. And btw what are the reactions of the big Pentecostal men and women of God (Nigeria, Ghana, Africa) to all this. Thank God for the Catholic Church, as usual that always work with a worked out political theology of peace.
And the MSM are relatively quiet on this, only tepidly and hypocritically reporting the White House as blaming the massacre on Hamas.
Given the experience of the Holocaust, I can understand the "Never Again" posture. But, this is a different Israel. This is a Trumpist Israel. But I am encouraged that there are groups within Israel who oppose all this. How do you justify such a disproportionate level of deadly violence? How would the soldiers deal with their conscience in the future?
Isnt this completely different than the right to defend the existence of Israel or of its security. Those were not threatened. I don't see Palestine able to really threaten this. With the ever-present US support and the technological superiority of Isreal, I don't see any existential threat to Isreal's existence. Not from Hamas. Certainly, not from these protesters.
Femi Kolapo
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 12:26:11 PM
To: usa
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Deadly protests in Gaza- Sharpeville Revisited
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gymj7b/the-history-and-rage-behind-the-deadly-protests-in-gaza
Feels like the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960.
Shame on Israel.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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