by
P.S. Sahni
The ongoing humongous monstrosity
inflicted by the Israeli army, Netanyahu government and its security
intelligence upon the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip is mind boggling.
Quantum shift of perception of events – historical and current – takes place in
one’s mind. The reason – perhaps the sheer speed with which the brutality is
being unleashed by the Israeli government and in full public glare; against
international opinion and in violation of all laws. Even the mind fails to
grasp and cope with how the Jewish victim community of holocaust is able to
throw up powerful sections of its very own community in the form of Israeli government
and its army to perpetrate holocaust-II on the Palestinians. The collective
conscience of the Germans failed to prevent holocaust-1; even as the collective
conscience of the Jewish community is seen to be unequal to the task of
preventing holocaust-II.
In recent days when a minister in the Israeli
government showed the audacity to publicly announce that Palestinians should be
nuclear-bombed, this demonic entity masquerading around as a human being should
have been arrested, charged and tried – with full evidence of his intent for
crimes against humanity laid before the whole world. Nothing of the sort
happened. So was his intent shared by his colleagues? Was the criminal idea
being field tested within the Israeli government? Are plans afoot to execute
the pronouncement anytime soon?
Humanity would be safer if Israel’s
secret underground nuclear arsenal hidden somewhere in the desert is made
dysfunctional through a safe method by an international agency rather than be
bombed out of existence. UN inspectors should have free access to the Israeli
nuclear reactor.
History records how Nazi Germany tried
to exterminate the Jews. It was expected that this community at the receiving
end of such inhumanities would – in future – be sensitive to the concerns of
others; at least the thinking and ruling members of this community would not be
seen as perpetrators of holocaust-II. Quite the contrary has happened, making
me entertain the thought for a fleeting moment whether the holocaust really
took place; I banished this thought instantaneously as blasphemous. Undoubtedly
the Nazi holocaust is a historical reality; but the expected salutary effect on
the victim community to sympathize, empathize and condemn crimes against
Palestinians is missing.
The vast majority of the educated middle
class citizens of Israel should perform their historical role of raising
questions on the ruling establishment. Fear or favour may be driving away many
from speaking up. But then they risk becoming colluders.
The impunity with which the Netanyahu
government is continuing with its 24x7 extermination of Palestinians against
the will of the International Community – as represented through U.N. – makes
one conclude that the Israeli government and its army are extracting disproportionately
the Shylockian pound of flesh – with blood and all – in lieu of the 1400 deaths
on 7th October 2023. Even the proverbial ‘eye for an eye, tooth for
a tooth’ adage does not satisfy the lust for blood of Palestinians. The
butchery by the Zionist state could have stopped at 1400; the monsters have
already reached 10 times that number. The continuous aid and abetment by
governments in USA, UK, France and Germany is fuelling holocaust-II unfolding
before the world. The perpetrators of this crime against humanity will be
brought to justice eventually though. That is the hope.
[P.S. Sahni is a qualified orthopaedic surgeon. He has worked
extensively with the victims of Sikh Genocide in 1984; amongst victims of 1992
anti-Muslim violence; and at the India-Bangladesh border during the Bangladesh Liberation
War resulting in 1971 Bangladesh Genocide of Bengali Hindus.
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