When American, Germans and others' sensitivity to Past erases the injustice of Present, inflicted by Israel on Palestinians

 

A Palestinian child holds tight, his father's shoes, for Israel has ensured that's all that remains for the boy to hold too.  A video by Al -Jazeera.

When Holocaust happened, it was left to human imagination to visualize the pain and trauma, it felt inhuman and surreal for many who were outside the European circle and had limited interaction with Jewish community. 

Now, when war crimes find a spot in most social media outlets, when mainstream media takes extra care to ensure the sensitivity of Israel and Israeli are not ruffled, voices from Palestine are silenced and even when heard it is against background of assertion of right of Israel to self-defence. 

As a person who has always stood for the rights of vulnerable groups, have a few questions to great democracies that sit and lecture to other countries on human rights, justice, equality and freedom.

You never fail to see the Israel right to security and sovereignty, but you never say a word about Palestine's rights. Why?

You conceptualised rights of Israel and its path for its statehood when Israel did not exist even as a project, yet you deny the right to statehood for Palestine, which existed as an entity even before Israel emerged as dream in the mind of anyone?

When Palestinian attack its occupying force that has abuse even children, jails and tortures them, then it is a terror act, when Israel kills a child for throwing a pebble, bombs women, men and children to pieces, when it executes men in front of their family members, when Israel destroys Mosques, schools, universities, hospitals... for you all are Just acts carried out by a moral army or mistakes that happen or human error. Why the difference? 

Why do Israeli have rights and freedom even as they commit war crimes, one after the other?

Why are Palestinian expected to respect and adore Israeli as Israeli forces  throw them out of their homes in dead of night, their children as young as ten and 12 years arrested in the middle of night with no explanation given, this has been happening for years before October 2023, when NGO's that complained about girl being raped was shut as a terrorist outfit, when children are killed by withholding medication needed for their survival, when Palestinians are denied access to roads that are made on Palestinian land, when dead bodies of Palestinian are retained by Israel for decades thus making it impossible for families to bury their loved ones, when Israel forces bomb all their mosques and insult their religious text, when individuals with disability, even those with downs syndrome are tortured just for fun, when men are made to strip in front of their families just out of spite, when they are denied water and natural source of drinking water are destroyed... Yet, Why is that Europeans and Americans expect Palestinian to love Israelis and respect them. At the same time if an American or European face even one of these crimes, then agency or government responsible would face not only legal consequences but would also need to pay compensation. 

Why this difference, if you claim all lives matter and all lives are equal?

Palestinian boy clings to his father's shoe