A Must Read

After a night long vigil of determining whether or not to accept Egypt's offer of 100marchers being allowed into Gaza, the march decided to do so. The last post below, however, contains their regrets. Incidentally, that offer was made by Suzanne Mubarak, the Egyptial "first lady" (I really hate that term), after representatives of the marchers met with her. In the meantime, with no relief in site for the Gazans, the US press is filled with reports on Mubarak's meeting with Netanyahu on yet another peace "summit." What does that mean when people are starving, dying and locked in a ghetto??

Lets make this relevant to us. My Zadie once told me he survived the pograms by hiding in the oven in his shack in the shtetl in Russia. I wonder what I would think if the Czar (who we know was encouraging, if not inciting the pograms) was busy hopping around the glob attending peace summits while the pograms were raging and my Zadie was hiding in his oven? Outrage is the first emotion that comes up. How about you?

The Youtube post here is a moving summary of the situation in Gaza. Note when the people ask "how can this be happening and the whole world stands by and does nothing?" Sound familiar? I think we asked ourselves that question about, oh, 60 years ago or so. As I said yesterday, when I think of Jewish, I do not think of BEING the oppressors. I think of being disproprotionately represented in, say, the Civil Rights Movement or the early American Communist Party or the protests on behalf of Darfur or, well you name it, any social action/civil rights movement. I think of the "never again" chant. Did we mean only never again for us? Or did we mean never again? And do we not carry a responsibility, as survivors of genocide, never to commit any sort of oppression ourselves?

http://alanxgoodman.blogspot.com/2009/12/sleeping-giant.html#comment-form

http://starhawksblog.org/?p=297

http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2779&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+http%2Fwwwmaxajlcom%2Ffeedrss2+%28Jewbonics%29

http://footsteps4gaza.blogspot.com/2009/12/100-to-go-to-gaza.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7_LqN1ICew

http://husseini.posterous.com/