The world saw two starkly opposed moral cultures on May 14.
On one side on May 14 were unarmed Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip calling for the right of Palestinians to return to the homes and lands they were driven out of by the creation of Israel 70 years ago. Palestinians call that al-Nakba (“The Catastrophe”).
On the other side were Israeli snipers lined along one side of the Israeli-enforced “open air prison” with two million Palestinian inmates. The other side of this prison known as Gaza is the Mediterranean Sea.
A small part of the border is the crossing from Gaza to Egypt. Egypt’s dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a traitor to all the Arab people, keeps that virtually closed, under orders from Israel.
On this one day, Israeli snipers shot unarmed civilians, leaving 62 Palestinians dead and wounding more than 2000 others, many severely. The bullets the sharpshooters used to pick off demonstrators fracture inside the body, tearing more tissue and creating fist-sized exit wounds.
Read the article by Barry Sheppard in Green Left Weekly.