Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Don't let Gaza become another Srebrenica

Today a Dutch court has ruled that the Netherlands was liable for the killings of more than 300 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war in July 1995.
It said that Dutch peacekeepers had failed to protect the Bosnian Muslims when the town fell to the besieging Bosnian Serb army.
This ruling comes at an incredibly poignant time, when the Governments and citizens of the West run the risk of accepting liability for the deaths of thousands through sheer unadulterated negligence.
Let us not be liable for the death of thousands of Palestinians, because we we were afraid of being condemned as Anti-Semitic.
It's not anti-Semitic to tell Israel to stop the shelling of some of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in earth. It's time to stand with Gaza and say no more.
Over 200 people have been killed in this shelling, it’s the responsibility of the world to bring the Israeli government and Hamas to the table and organise a ceasefire.