Elie Wiesel wrote “never again” becomes more than a slogan: “It’s a prayer, a promise, a vow to prevent future genocides.”
However it shocks and grieves me that my friends, our government and religious leaders look away or are silent as the genocide grinds on against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and other areas where Palestinians live under Israeli rule.
According to a recent poll by The Guardian, three quarters of Jewish Israelis agree with the claim made by Israel’s government that “there are no innocents in Gaza.”
As of Aug. 26, over 62,000 Palestinians, 18,500 of whom are children, have died from starvation or military strikes carried out by Israel (using armaments supplied by the U.S.)
Speak up. Silence is complicity.
“Never again” has become “Again and again.”
Carolyn Erickson, Salt Lake City
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