| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Peaceful march of Jews in London to support Israel... | |
| Posted by: | Lucille Grant | |
| Date/Time: | 30/12/23 15:09:00 |
| As most of you know I am Jewish and grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust in which my maternal grandmother died in a concentration camp and my mother was a refugee from her native Germany via Prague in August 1939. FWIW I haven't read the full thread but I have been on two peaceful marches to highlight the plight of civilian hostages in the news and to protest against rampant antisemitism here in Britain, the like of which I have never known in my lifetime. I go to sleep each night and wake each morning with the images of the hostages in my head and the brutality towards in particular the young and the old, especially women. Israel first and foremost (as all countries should) have to put the safety of her citizens whether Jews, Christians or Muslim, at its heart. Hamas has repeated that they will repeat the pogrom of October 7th until all Jews are killed. What would any other country do? Meanwhile there are no marches supporting Ukraine during Russia's continuing bombardment. Why is that I wonder? Just because fewer people have been killed in Ukraine than in Gaza? Or is it as Sasha Baron Cohen remarked 'Is it cos I'm a Jew'? Every death is to be mourned, no matter how many or how few. I do not support Netanyahou nor the extreme Right Wing members of the Israeli government BUT there needs to be leaders in both Israel and the Palestinian territories to come forth with solutions in the way that in Ireland/Northern Ireland political leaders such as the late John Hume and Seamus Mallon did (am quoting from a recent Irish Independent article here.) Unfortunately I can't see that happening any time soon. |