THE INHUMANITY, SHAME OF GAZA IS AN ALBATROSS HUMANITY COLLECTIVELY FETCHES FOREVER

The Flour Massacre is the world’s latest shame. Recently, in Gaza, as hungry adults approached a convoy of flour trucks for food to feed their children who are dying of starvation, more than a hundred were murdered by bullets from soldiers.
On the 69th anniversary of one of America’s most shameful acts of government-directed racial terrorism, on the iconic civil rights Edmund Pettus Bridge, America’s Vice President called for a six-week ceasefire in Gaza. Just a few weeks ago, at the UN Security Council chaired by Guyana’s UN Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues, 13 members of the Council voted for a ceasefire, but America vetoed the resolution, and the UK abstained. One country silenced the voices of the rest of the world, legitimizing autocracy and endorsing continued genocide in Gaza.
Instead of shedding crocodile tears, VP Kamala Harris could have apologized for America’s vetoing of the resolution. She could have promised that, the next time, America would do the right thing and join the rest of the world to demand a ceasefire. She could have apologized for the sad spectacle of air-dropping 38,000 meals for the 2M people starving because of the man-made famine in Gaza, for the 83% of the genocidal bombs from America against the Palestinian people. Not a single person in America is fooled.
The crocodile tears only followed a warning given to President Biden and the democrats by their own party members, when more than 100,000 of them voted uncommitted in the Michigan Primary, refusing to vote for President Biden. The genuine human catastrophe and inhumanity in Gaza did not move America; America was moved by the fear of losing an election. VP Harris only urged a ceasefire for six weeks to secure the release of the Jewish hostages. After which Israel could resume the slaughter of the Gazan citizens?
The Israel-led genocide against the people of Gaza is the latest of a long shameful list of genocides. Between 1941 and 1945, during the 2nd World War, Germany’s genocide against the Jewish people killed more than 10M people. Auschwitz, one of the places where the killing camps existed, is a macabre exhibition of the shoes from millions of those Jewish people who suffered from the Christian leaders of Germany. Germans will never be released from the albatross around their necks because, in supporting the genocide in Gaza today, they show they have no remorse for their genocide against the Jews. Today, the victims and the perpetuator of one of the most recent horrible genocides are together foisting a terrible genocide in Gaza, in plain sight for the whole world to see.
In 1935, Gareth Jones, a reporter, was murdered by Soviet agents in Mongolia for revealing the horrible Holodomor genocide which took place between 1932 and 1933, when 4M Ukrainians were intentionally starved to death (famine-induced genocide) by the Soviet state because the Soviets were seeking to take away lands from Ukrainian peasants to establish state collectives.
Between 1975 and 1979, the Pol Pot Kymer Rouge genocide, targeting intellectuals, professionals, ethnic groups such as Thais and Chinese and Cambodian Christians and Muslims, took the lives of more than 3M Cambodians. China gave active support, and the US ignored the genocide because it served their interest in Vietnam. The 1994 Rwandan genocide was a murderous spree by Hutus to eliminate the ethnic Tutsis in Rwanda. There is a museum in Rwanda with machetes in the skulls of children, reminding us of the horrendous events that took place during the Rwandan genocide, which killed more than 500,000 Tutsi people. Between 1894 and 1922, the Ottoman Empire (today’s Türkiye) killed more than 1M Armenians, equal to 90 percent of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire; more than 500,000 Greeks, 25% of the Greeks in the Empire; and almost 1M people in present-day Syria/Iraq, during the Assyrian Genocide of 1915. The Bangladesh genocide in 1971 killed more than 3M Bengalis and Hindus.
Whether it is the above genocides or the earlier ones: such as the Quing Dynasty genocide, when the Dzungar tribe between Siberia and Kazakhstan was virtually decimated; or the Tsar Alexander II’s Circassian genocide against the Caucasus people; or the genocide against the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas by the Europeans; or the genocide led by Genghis Khan which almost totally eliminated the peoples of Iran and Persia, genocides shamefully have been a part of the cruel history of mankind.
But today’s genocide against Gaza is a spectator sport, people watching from the hills in Israel, or on TV. Daily, we watch children being murdered with the most powerful weapons supplied by the most powerful nations on earth. We watch innocent children, mothers, fathers, grandparents as their bodies are bombed into smithereens by the most powerful bombs, not because they are resisting, but because they are begging for food. They are starving, dying from famine, but the excuse for murdering them is that they, with bowls in their hands, constitute a deadly threat.
And powerful nations shamelessly perpetuate the ugly narrative that the history of the Gaza genocide started on October 7, 2023, when the Hamas attacked Israel. That Gaza has been a prison for decades; that freedom eluded a people for decades; that starvation was a way of life in Gaza; never is spoken about.
When VP Harris called for a ceasefire, while standing on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Montgomery to observe the Selma massacre against marchers led by Martin Luther King and John Lewis, by shedding crocodile tears, she insulted their memory. Today, we carry, and will forever carry, the Gaza shame like an albatross. President Ali and Guyana consistently, from the start, have condemned the Gaza genocide. The time is now for the world to end the siege. In his State of the Union Message tomorrow, President Biden could bring hope to the people of Gaza. But I would not hold my breath.