7 January 2009
I wonder what would happen.
I wonder what would happen if the situation between the Muslim Palestinians in Gaza and the Jews in Israel was reversed.
I wonder what would happen if Israel had never existed because they had lost their “war of independence”, which had then left millions of Jews blockaded in ghettos and refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza. Thus, the current state of Israel would instead be a developed Muslim Palestinian state, with full military and economic control over the Jewish refugees in Gaza and the West Bank. The Gaza Strip would instead be known as the “Gaza Ghetto”, home to 1.5 million Jewish refugees who had nowhere else to go.
I wonder what would happen.
I wonder what would happen if the Jews in the Gaza Ghetto could no longer stand living under a military and economic blockade from the Muslim Palestinians and began to fight back, even though they knew they could not win. The leaders of the Jews in Kadima (the largest elected party in Gaza) might speak words of defiance against the Muslim occupiers. Kadima might get their hands on some rockets and try to demonstrate their defiance against the Muslim Palestinian army who had blockaded the Jews in Gaza Ghetto for 1.5 years, and had held them under occupation for decades.
I wonder what would happen.
I wonder what would happen if the Muslim Palestinian military responded to those rocket attacks by dropping bombs on the heavily populated Gaza Ghetto for a week and then entered Gaza with tanks, blowing up buildings, homes, UN-protected schools, and anything else that they wished to destroy. Then, the Muslim army would simply say to the media, “We are just defending ourselves against Kadima. They are terrorists. For some reason, the Kadima terrorists will not accept being imprisoned indefinitely in Gaza Ghetto, and they have fired rockets at Southern Palestine from inside Gaza. The Kadima terrorists broke the ceasefire, so we have to destroy them. We are only defending ourselves. Ten Muslims have been killed by the Muslim terrorists, so it is our right to kill hundreds of Jews and injure thousands more. One Muslim life is worth a hundred Jews.”
I wonder what would happen.
I wonder what would happen if Russia (replacing the United States of America as the current protector of Israel) continuously used its veto power in the Security Council to block any formal statement of condemnation by the United Nations against the Muslim Palestinians. I wonder what the United States would say if the Russians consistently defended all actions by the Muslim Palestinians and insisted that the state of Palestine had a right to defend itself against Kadima rocket attacks, even if it meant the deaths of hundreds of innocent Jews in Gaza.
I wonder what would happen.
I wonder what the United States and the European Union would say if Russia issued a formal statement saying, “We have no problem with the Jewish civilians in Gaza Ghetto. They are not the problem. It’s Kadima. They are the terrorists. We will not negotiate with terrorists. Kadima must be destroyed. The Jewish refugees in Gaza have no right to attack the Muslims in Palestine from within Gaza Ghetto. This is a war against terror. The Jews are the terrorists. Jews are not permitted to show any acts of defiance towards Muslim occupiers.”
I wonder what would happen.
I wonder what would happen if the governments in Europe, England, and America, saw more than 760 Jews killed in Gaza and another 3,000 wounded in only 13 days, where the majority of them were civilians and about 30% of them were innocent Jewish children. Perhaps the world would simply watch as this slaughter was carried out by well-armed Muslim Palestinian soldiers, and all attempts to bring about a ceasefire would constantly be blocked by Russia. Russia would then inform the media that the superior Muslim army had every right to defend the state of Palestine by dropping bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza that were filled with Jewish civilians.
I wonder what would happen.
I wonder what would happen if Egypt refused to open its border to let the Jewish civilians in Gaza Ghetto escape. I wonder what the world would say if Egypt refused to open its border to allow medicine, food, water, petrol (for generators at the hospitals) and other essential supplies to enter Gaza Ghetto in order to help ease the suffering of the Jewish civilians.
I wonder what the world would say to Egypt.
I wonder what the world would say to Russia because it allowed so many Jewish civilians to be killed by a sophisticated Muslim Palestinian army and then continued to give the Muslims absolute protection from the United Nations.
I wonder what the political leaders and citizens of the United States of America would say. Would they continue to be silent as they are now?
I wonder what would happen.
I wonder what would happen if CNN showed interviews with doctors stuck in the hospitals in Gaza, and they said, “About thirty percent of the casualties are Jewish children. They are dying before we can treat them because there are just too many. We are running out of supplies. Why won’t the world come to the aid of the innocent Jewish civilians in Gaza? Why are the Muslim Palestinians allowed to bomb Gaza in this way? Where is the international community? Why are they not taking action to protect the lives of innocent Jews in Gaza?”
I wonder what would happen.
I wonder what would happen if CNN showed an elderly Jewish rabbi running along a street in Gaza with his dead child in his arms. His prayer shawl and shirt were stained red with blood, his bleeding wife running beside him, and scenes of chaos and destruction visible behind them as they ran for their lives. The rabbi would scream at the camera crew, and say, “Why are they killing innocent Jewish civilians? What did we do? We are not members of Kadima. We do not fire rockets. Why did the Muslims have to kill my son? Why will no one come to our defense?”
I wonder what would happen.
I wonder what would happen if all of the above were true and happening right now. I wonder if the decent and peaceful citizens of the world (who I believe are the majority) were watching this on television. I wonder how many ordinary mother and fathers, teenagers and elderly people would continue to remain silent if this slaughter was being conducted against a Jewish civilian population in Gaza.
Would people be outraged? Would they join in national protests? Would they hold their elected leaders accountable and demand that action be taken immediately to stop the violence?
I wonder what would happen if the people of the world valued the life of an innocent Muslim child as highly as they seem to value the life of an innocent Jewish child.
I wonder what would happen if the situation in Gaza was reversed.
Gene Netto
Jakarta, Indonesia
