An Appeal to Friends, and all to Watch and Share this Video. It matters.

Richard Mellor

Afscme 444, retired

hEO/GED

6-24-22

 

A few quick words about this video.

 

I was talking with someone the other day who pretty quick quickly ended the conversation when I raised a few points about the mass murder and genocide in Gaza. They stopped watching the news, or avoided social media which is the main source for what’s happening in Gaza. The scenes of shredded children or starving people, many of them children had become too much for them.

 

I couldn’t agree more, I find it difficult as well. Mind you, I don’t watch the mains stream media, if we want to know the depths of the depravity in Gaza, or anywhere else if that matters, we need to seek out social media. Without social media, the Zionist, Israeli, Western cover up of their genocide in Palestine would be extensive.

 

I understand these sentiments and also feel very much the same when people tell me there’s nothing they can do about it; they feel helpless so they avoid it, shut it out.

 

I get this. But there is something you can do. If you do nothing else, you can increase your knowledge of events, watch this video and share it widely. Share it with friends on your FB page, on Instagram and other outlets. Point it out to friends over a pint or at lunch. Raise it in your union and pass resolutions or letters opposing it and share them widely. You don’t have to live and die for this but you don’t have to stand on the side lines.

 

I am not making this appeal in order to guilt trip people in to activity or present an image of myself as more concerned about human suffering than others. I am not in the streets. But we are witnessing a Nazi like extermination of people in Gaza and the one force that could stop it (barring the conscious intervention of the working class in the US and internationally) is the US government. Unfortunately, the US rogue state is behind it all the way and has spent billions of our taxpayer dollars funding it. The western governments in general are complicit in this 21^st century Palestinian holocaust.

 

I reiterate; I am not trying to guilt trip anyone, but for fux sake, people post pictures of food, their favorite beer (I’m one of them), their cat or dog and all sorts of other harmless meme’s. That’s OK, no problem with it. But to be honest folks, I have over 1000 friends on FB and many are former co-workers. I know they do not support this but I rarely see posts like this from many of them and many will not even “like” something I post on the subject or share it themselves.

 

I understand some people have jobs that could be threatened if they post anything political. I feel sorry for you that you are restricted like that, I am not sure I could stand it, but in the main I think people just feel helpless so what’s the point, life is bad enough, I can’t do anything so I ignore it. 

 

But I remind you of the oft used statement from that preacher about first they came for the Jews, then the communists then the labor leaders etc etc. I’m sure the reader is aware of it.

 

We see the early stages of such behavior here in the US with the rounding up of immigrants which has a very racist undertone to them much like the attacks on Irish immigrants in Britain before other colonial people, non-whites began to arrive. We see the firings of dissenters in academia and revenge politics from the present president against any critic whether it be an individual or an institution like a university or law firm. 

 

What is happening in Gaza is too dire for me to be overly concerned about hurting people’s feelings. But how can anyone claim to be a Christian or a Jew, and go to church or the temple and say. Nothing about this. There are Christian nationalists and there are Jewish extremists (Zionists) but no Christian or Jew who value the tenets of their faith should be silent about this, or passive. 

 

I know Jews that have not said one word about Jewish extremists (Zionists) condemning this slaughter in their name. Imagine if a German refused to condemn Nazism and the furor that would generate. You should join the huge number of young Jews here in the US and the UK that are in the forefront of the pro-Palestinian movement. They are fighting anti-Semitism through their actions; Zionism promotes anti-Semitism and cannot exist without it.

 

I appeal to all of you who for one reason or another stay silent to change course as it does make a difference. It throws the crimes of the genociders in their faces. It has already changed the way the world sees this crisis. It prevents them from controlling the narrative. It helps if you do nothing else.