By Antony Loewenstein
March 5, 2025 — 12.00am
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
But sadly so true – Mark
There are too many horrific stories to recount. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023, the day that Hamas attacked Israel and murdered about 1200 people, and yet we barely know any of their names or stories. The nightmares inflicted by the Israeli army, and backed, armed, defended and endorsed by virtually every Western state including Australia, has left the Gaza Strip in ruins, its civilian population destitute, maimed, hungry and trapped.
Just one example will suffice. In May last year, a senior officer in the Israeli military’s Nahal Brigade tied an explosive cord around the neck of an 80-year-old Palestinian man in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City and forced him to be a human shield. After his job was done, the solders pushed the elderly man and his wife to flee, and both were soon executed by other soldiers.
Have you heard this tale of woe? Almost certainly not. Their lives don’t matter, at least not like Israeli hostages held by Hamas. There’s a hierarchy of compassion and Palestinians reside at the bottom. Jewish existence means more than shredded Arab bodies. As a Jew myself, this is a direct rejection of our humanistic values for millennia and yet, it’s aggressively pushed by Israel and its wild-eyed supporters across the globe.
How to describe this wilful blindness among many politicians, journalists and editors? “For now,” writes Omar El Akkad, the Egyptian-born author and journalist living in the United States, “it’s just so much easier to look away, to keep one’s head down, periodically checking on the balance of polite society to see if it’s not too troublesome yet to state what to the conscience was never unclear.”
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