CAN YOU HEAR THE CRIES FROM GAZA?

For some reason, most of the latest reports about what is going on in Gaza seem to be coming from foreigners. Sonja Karkar is an Australian writing the following... in it she echoes words I have said over and over... "We can choose to hear their cries or ignore them, but we certainly cannot say that "we did not know". "

I BEG YOU NOT TO IGNORE THOSE CRIES.

No one seems to hear the cries from Gaza enough to act, despite the reports that talk about imminent economic collapse, dangerous food shortages, total aid dependency and impending humanitarian disaster. Neither the cries nor the reports appear in the headlines or news alerts in our mainstream media. And, while the statistics make shocking reading when they do emerge, it is the cries that we should be hearing because they come from people like us--real flesh and blood people who bleed, feel pain and grieve. They are the cries that give rise to the statistics, the cries of Palestinians no less human and no less vulnerable than any one of us would be as prisoners of Israel's merciless occupation. More...