HOW EASY WE ACCEPT

Emotive photo? Yes, I guess it is, especially if you've just had your breakfast, I guess we have become accustomed to such images,and seeing them regular sort of numbs us about the real human horrors of such situations - maybe even sets us thinking "What the hell? Been happening for centuries?".
Score so far? Deaths - Israel 13 Gaza 1,000.
Am I imagining it? Or is there something a bit disproportionate here?
It is well known that the U.S. government supports the Israeli administration, and that's understandable seeing as how lobbying, (especially from Jewish groups), influences politics. (NO, I am not anti-Jewish, and YES, I am anti-lobbying when policies can be determined by non-elected individuls or groups).
It seems, (so far anyway), that Obama has no intentions of changing the situation, and I quote, "My view is that the United States' special relationship with Israel obligates us to be helpful to them in the search for credible partners with whom they can make peace, while also supporting Israel in defending itself against enemies sworn to its destruction,"
That special relationship is, I am sure, determined by the funding supplied by the lobbying groups. So there.
Do I have a soluton to this Middle east problem?
NO, but it does not stop me, (or many others), condemning the Israeli war machine and those who guide it.
I believe the U.S. military call it collateral damage - what a beautiful euphemism for what actually happens on the ground. Sick to my mind too - bloody sick.
Wonder if the use of that term gives any comfort to the man in the photo above? Wonder if it comforts the 1,000's of people who suffered similar losses.
There are no winners in war - the so-called winning side often loses moral integrity - loses a little something of their humanity.
The U.N.? Yeah yeah - as with all organisations, they sit in splendid isolation in their ivory tower in New York, immune from the real horrors, except for those representatives that venture out to see it for themselves, those who actually witness and experience the horror of grieving families and the rank metallic smell of spilt blood in the streets and hospital corridors, the smell so strong that you can taste it. The sickly sweet lingering odour of decomposing bodies. God forbid non-elected national representatives from most countries should experience such things. They're too busy fluffing up their feathers in the hope of achieving status in the competitive corridors of power.
If you imagine the U.N. is a powerful, influential, body, then think again. Look at some of its member states.
Italy - treating the Roma people like scum of the earth, much the same as the Nazis treated them in WWII.
Saudi Arabia - total failure to accept the U.N. Bill of Human rights in almost every way.
The U.N. reaction to these, and many other such states? A quick slap on the wrist then back into bed to continue politically shagging each other.
The list is never-ending.
If i succeed in making just one person stop and think then I'm happy, because that 1 might just talk to others. You know what I mean - six degrees of separation and all that.
See ya