A community broadcaster in Aotearoa New Zealand has appealed for an end to the “sadistic cruelty” and the “out in the open genocide” by Israel in Gaza and the occupied Palestine territories.
In an open letter, Lois Griffiths, co-presenter of the environmental, social justice and current affairs programme Earthwise on Plains FM, has criticised the “injustices imposed by colonialism” and has cited Bethlehem Lutheran pastor Munther Isaac in saying “Gaza today has become the moral compass of the world”.
Her letter is published by Asia Pacific Report to mark the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
The open letter by Griffiths says:
K Gurunathan’s article “Sparks fly as political tinder of Māori anger builds” (The Press and The Post, November 25) argues that the injustices imposed by colonialism, including the “systematic confiscation of Māori land”, leading to poverty and cultural alienation are factors behind the anger expressed by the recent Hīkoi.
We need to learn Aotearoa New Zealand history.
One needs to learn history in order to understand the present.
But we need to learn world history too.
Coincidentally, I am in the middle of reading Israeli journalist Gideon Levy’s most recent book The Killing of Gaza: reports on a catastrophe.
Levy has been there many times, reporting first hand about the sadistic cruelty imposed on its people, a cruelty that began in 1948.
He explains that Hamas promotes armed resistance as a last resort. Any other approach has been ignored
The Israeli regime is being accused now of war crimes. But war crimes have been going on for decades.
But it sickens me to even think of what is happening now. It is genocide, genocide out in the open.
In the words of Bethlehem Lutheran pastor Munther Isaac: “Gaza today has become the moral compass of the world.”
