Blogger's  introduction:

From epicentre of the criminal disaster being inflicted upon Palestine, a voice of reason and faith can only lament, rage, and seek solace wherever.  Listen carefully, please to this informed voice of Palestinian human beings.

For 76 years, political Zionist leaders of the State of Israel have been implementing Plan Dalet:  expand Israeli control over all Palestine and banish, incarcerate, annihilate its Palestinian indigenous population.  The Plan's aim has been to create an exclusive Jewish homeland freed of Palestinian Arabs.   Repeatedly since and even before the Partition in 1948, the militarily superior and Western armed forces of Israel have used Palestinian resistance as the trigger to advance the political Zionist Plan - a Nakba process.   

The Hamas-led assault of October 7, 2023  has unleashed any restraints that may have held Israel back.   Currently 41,000 Gazan children, women, and men have been murdered and hundred thousand more grievously injured.   Universities, schools, hospitals, churches, homes and essential infrastructure bombed and dynamited,  Necessities of life have been held back with the result, according to Lancet journal, that as many as many as 185,000 Gazans can be expected to die. 

 It is a genocide - think what that word means.

This human catastrophe is a moral catastrophe for the faithful of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  It is a legal abyss which the International Court of Justice has declared unlawful.   The International Criminal Court is processing warrants for the arrest of both the Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Israel.   Western political leaders, esp. the USA, UK, Germany, and Canada are complicit in these war crimes by virtue of their ongoing funding and supplying of arms to the State of Israel.

What is published below is a strong voice crying in this wilderness of rubble created by State of Israel's political and military powers  fueled by racist hate against the persevering victims who have been dispossessed and brutalized by heavily armed settler neo-colonial forces.   

Palestinians plead with people of faith, hope, justice, and truth to stop just looking and to engage this evil with all their gifts of the Spirit, so that Palestinians may just continue to nurture the will to live in their diversely populated ancestral homeland, as promised by the UN resolution 194 - the right to return, and with it, the right to self-determination as UNDRIP* promises and as the Holy One intends and cherishes for all in the ONE human family. 

What are faith communities doing to the "resist evil and to seek justice" in blood-saturated Palestine?   

 Harry Oussoren

*United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Palestinians: A Struggle for Survival in a World Turned Away....

by Rifat Kassis,

Kairos Palestine & Global Kairos for Justice coalition

General Coordinator. Senior Consultant

Ruthless Settler Colonial Occupation 

The Palestinian people, like many nations throughout history—Americans under British rule, the French during Nazi occupation, Indians under British imperialism, Algiers under French occupation and others—find themselves under the iron grip of ruthless military occupation. Israel, the occupying power, imposes a regime of oppression and apartheid that denies Palestinians all their fundamental rights among them to live in dignity and freedom.

Resistance

For decades, Palestinians have employed every method in their pursuit of liberation. They have taken up arms in resistance, but violence has led only to further devastation. They have committed to non-violence, hoping that the world would recognize their humanity, yet the global community remains largely indifferent.

Appeals to the United Nations and international community have been met with hollow promises, resolutions that remain unenforced, and a paralyzed institution incapable of holding Israel accountable.

They have turned to international courts in search of justice, only to discover that these courts are designed to prosecute the powerless, not the powerful.

Expansion of the State of Israel's Warfare

Today, the situation grows increasingly dire. Israel now targets cities like Jenin and Tulkarem with the same military force it uses against Gaza, using starvation, tanks and launching airstrikes that violate international law by targeting protected civilian populations. 

The Palestinian Authority, weakened and powerless, cannot defend its people. Israel, as the occupying power, shirks its obligations under international law, choosing instead to deepen its hegemony and crimes.

The United States and Europe continue to supply Israel with finance, weapons and political cover, ensuring that the genocide endures unchallenged.

Meanwhile, the United Nations remains ineffective, incapable of enforcing its own resolutions. The Arab and Muslim worlds have proven too weak or disinterested to offer meaningful support.

The Grim Reality

In this grim reality, Palestinians are left with haunting questions: What can we do? Where can we go? How can we act? The world has turned its back, leaving Palestinians to either be killed in their homeland or face forced displacement yet again. It is a cruel world indeed, where justice is a distant dream and the struggle for freedom is met with silence.

In the face of this relentless violence and dehumanization, where even the very essence of our humanity is denied by those who call us "human animals," I have lost faith in the capacity of countries, politicians, diplomats, religious institutions, and the international community to halt the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing against us. 

The persistent failure of these entities to act against the brutality inflicted upon Palestinians has driven me to seek refuge in a final, desperate appeal: I call upon animal rights protection organizations and movements to extend their compassion to us, to spare our lives, and to protect us from the genocide that looms over us.

In a world where human rights are disregarded, perhaps the basic instinct to protect life, even that of animals, might awaken some semblance of action to prevent our annihilation.