A little history. Israel exists because at the end of WWII with millions of Jews displaced and migrants and the European nations themselves deeply damaged the Christian Europeans did not want a large influx of Jews into their countries. At the same time, the Zionists saw an opportunity to create their own country in the Middle East where The Muslims were a primitive local population that had no particular political power. From these two directions, the British who controlled Palestine agreed to give control over to the Jews and, thus, Israel came to be. From the beginning, not surprisingly, the Muslims resisted and the Israelis to my surprise the Israelis reverted to the same mentality that for centuries was inflicted on them. For hundreds of years, the Christians ghettoized and persecuted the Jews. One would think the Israelis having experienced that for so long would have from the beginning of Israel made working out a way to get on with the Muslims a priority. They didn’t, and now they are led by Netanyahu a Jewish Trump just as fascist and as corrupt. So far 30,000 Gazans, largely women and children have been murdered by the Israelis, and the ground attack they are planning could result in thousands more deaths. When this finally resolves I predict a new generation of Muslims will seek revenge by creating some new version of Hamas.
In late January, I left my home in Virginia, where I work as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon and joined a group of physicians and nurses traveling to Egypt with the humanitarian aid group MedGlobal to volunteer in Gaza.
I have worked in other war zones. But what I witnessed during the next 10 days in Gaza was not war — it was annihilation. At least 28,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. From Cairo, Egypt’s capital, we drove 12 hours east to the Rafah border. We passed miles of parked humanitarian aid trucks because they weren’t allowed into Gaza. Aside from my team and other envoy members from the United Nations and World Health Organization, there were very few others there.
Entering southern Gaza on Jan. 29, where many have fled from the north, felt like the first pages of a dystopian novel. Our ears were numb with the constant humming of […]