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Letter: Open eyes to carnage in Middle East

By William Sterr, Vancouver
Published: January 18, 2024, 6:00am

“There is no man so blind as he who will not see.”

For 75 years we in the West have fed the rise of a nation-state which today abrogates to itself the right to destroy a people, and to do it in such a bald-faced way that otherwise intelligent and logical people choose to not see it, but rather blame its victims for their own destruction.

Together, under the leadership of the U.S., Europe and Israel justify the crime of genocide which has been otherwise rightly condemned in Germany, Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur and more.

The people of Palestine have been denied their homes, their livelihoods, their history, and now their very lives in favor of the creation of a “Western democracy” in the Middle East. All so the oil wealth and political power of that region might be more easily manipulated by the U.S. and its vassal European states.

Meanwhile, a majority of our fellow citizens choose not to see or understand these crimes. Despite that, every Palestinian child crushed to a nameless jelly by a bombed building, or burned up like a piece of rubbish by exploding shells, is being murdered in our name.

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