Shock and awe in Gaza

Linda van Schagen

For some of us who have Cable TV and can tune into Al Jazeera who have a wide coverage of the carnage in Gaza, we see the repeat of the horrors inflicted on Iraqis. But, in Gaza, it is ten times worse with large bombs dropped on homes, schools, businesses and on innocent civilians of which 2/3rds have been women and children.

As of today January 14 nearly a 1,000 Gazans have been murdered with nearly 5,000 badly injured. The injuries are not mere scratches and bruises - they are horrific. Those sights have kept me wide awake most nights with the intense feeling that I should be doing something about it.

Smoke bellows beside a mosque from the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, following an air strike on January 17 as seen from the Egyptian side of the crossing. AFP

Criminalise War

In a recent TV interview with former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamemd, he said that it was time now to criminalise War. I fully endorse this view. We are in the 21st century and still behaving like savages and barbarians.

What have we learnt about peaceful co-existence and love, compassion, forgiveness and reconciliation in the past three thousand years? Absolutely nothing! We have spent more time in trivial pursuits and chased after wealth, fame and fortune than in inner reflection, contemplation and doing good for others. The available knowledge is mere rubbish.

What we should really be pursuing is the Criminalization of the Manufacture of All Weapons. Weapons are not manufactured to be used as trophies to be displayed on shelves and walls. They are manufactured with the finest precision to kill men, women and children in the most painful manner possible.

When we see those White Phosphor Bombs exploding in mid-air in Gaza scattering large pellets (looking like a giant octopus) you should realize that this is not just a fireworks display. White Phosphor burns flesh to the bone.

Global institutions

We all know that the Jews control the world - its finances, wars, western Governments, the IMF, World Bank, the United Nations and various other global institutions. We also know that, historically, whenever they come together as a nation they wage wars on neighbouring nations, get defeated, and become those nations’ slaves (after terrible wars they have been enslaved by Egyptians, Babylonians and Assyrians).

Around 100 A.D. they lost their battles and became the Jewish Diaspora, stateless, reviled, persecuted, gassed and slaughtered but did not learn their lesson. For nearly 2,000 years they lived in pockets of the world until the last century when the United Nations was formed and they were given official status as a nation in 1948 on land robbed from the Palestinians.

They are up to their ancient tricks again - that of breaking the Ten Commandments given to them by their God, Yah-Weh (the War God in Hebrew).

Air offensive

The Israelis launched their air offensive on Gaza on their Sabbath (Saturday) when the commandment clearly says “Six days of the week shall thou labour but on the seventh day, rest and keep it holy”.

Ten commandments

The second offensive on Gaza, the ground offensive or invasion, happened on the following sabbathi. “Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself” and “Thou shalt not covet Thy Neighbours Wife, nor his Ox nor his Ass, Nor anything that is Thy Neighbours” are the other commandments broken by them. The most important of all the Ten Commandments is “Thou Shalt Not Kill” and this they have violated in the last 20 days of the War on Gaza over 1,000 times.

The Bible was written for the Jews and it is a saga of the love-hate relationship Yah-Web (or Jehovah in English) had with the Jews. Through the Bible they have been chastised as being ‘disobedient’, ‘rebellious’, ‘disloyal’, ‘stiff-necked’ and so on. It is full of threats of what Yah-Web will do to them if they continued disobeying them, including their total annihilation in the last book of the Bible, the Revelations of John, also known as ‘Apocalypse of John’. Apocalypse is the Greek word for revelation. The book of revelations was written by John in the island of Patmos, Greece.

Are these the prophesied ‘End-times’ of the Jews?