No One Has Right To Kill The Innocent Ones In Gaza
By Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava
31 July, 2014
Countercurrents.org
The reports emerge that USA is supplying the arms to Israel under programme WRSA-I under which Israel can use the stockpiles in case of emergency. According to reports “The munitions were located inside Israel as part of a programme managed by the US military and called War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSA-I), which stores munitions locally for US use that Israel can also access in emergency situations.” Usually these are under control of US and for its use. This allowance has been made in the name of right of self defense of Israel moreover to maintain and protect the friendship of Israel as these serve the national interests of US.
This development is quite surprising keeping in mind that so many innocents children are being killed in Gaza. The families are being uprooted in the name of the national interests of Israel. USA has supported Israel in this venture. The killing of innocent ones explicitly bring into forefront the inhumanitarian approach of Israel to resolve the issue in Palestine. There are many scholars who blame the Palestinian politics for such attacks. The moot question is, can it be allowed on this pretext to kill the small kids, those who have not seen even the beauties of the nature and have not discovered the world with the liberty extended to them by education and literature.
The humanity can not allow any nation state to kill the young lives. The killing of any young one or children or of any one anywhere, anytime is violation of basic human life. None can or should kill the Jews, equally none can kill the Gaza children who other day were running on the streets and basking in the glory of their young age. All has been destroyed by the people who are great strategists, who know more about global politics but in fact the policy planners in Israel and USA have failed to recognize the basic fact that humanity survives with kindness not by lethality of weapons. What they are killing today are not few young bodies but in fact they are killing the soul of humanity and pleasures of being born as human being.
So many have been killed inside their homes, on the roads, near the in secured hiding places in Gaza but alas! the global politicians from developing to developed nations, from Asia to Africa to Europe, from brown to black to white skinned ones have not reacted in strong manner. They have just discharged their duties by passing the resolution in the UN. They have thought mere words are necessary to satisfy themselves that they have done something substantial.
In fact soul of humanity has died. Common people in different quarters of world know that they can not do anything. They can only cry, can sob, can deliberate but nothing more. Those who can do as USA they at one time say yes, fight should be stopped. Other time says Israel has right to defend. At some other time, yes my stockpiles are yours. This is not a politics of national interest. It is the politics of killing the humanity.
When war would end. Professors from Universities will venture out in sunny days in Europe. Some will take a lunch in well decorated rooms with drink in North American universities and will go for research and will conclude, yes it was alright in full terms for Israel to attack. They will publish in their working papers, research journals, how did Israel win? But none will write a paper on how many young lives were lost. None will ever shed the tears on the deaths of those who had come on this earth never knowing that such a fate of death awaited them.
Today common people of the world want answer from USA, Israel and all those who are silent today. They have to give the answers or they will be doomed in the history books as leaders with no enduring fame. They have to listen the voice of their inner conscience. They must know they have a duty towards human civilization. They must ensure that such attacks should be stopped which have killed so many young ones and will kill so many in the days to come.
World leaders should think if they can not make alive a person who is dead. Equally they have no right to kill a person who is alive for no reason. No one can take away the right to life of any one not even of the so small girls, boys or of all those who are innocents.
Hence all world leaders should press Israel to stop this act now. US should stop all support to Israel now.
Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava is presently Assistant Professor in CSJM Kanpur University[affiliated college],Vice Chairman CSSP, Recent paper- Modi government deviates from historical stand on Palestine, Mainstream weekly,26 July 2014, www.mainstreamweekly.net
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