בכותרת גשם של מוות וסבל בישראל ובעזה , Raining Death and Suffering inIsrael and Gaza , להלן מכתב שכתבה חברתי כאחות לי, פרופסור ננסי שפר יוז, לעורך הניו יורק טיימס Editor: The news of the past few days has been unbearable. The NY Times front page photo of grieving mourners at the funeral of an Israeli soldier, no doubt very young and much loved , is tragic. But soldiers are carrying out the Israeli governments policy of targeting homes, schools, hospitals, basic infrastructure and therefore killing civilians, families and children. Gaza is rapidly turning into Israels Warsaw ghetto. Cutting off electricity will kill the most vulnerable: infants and the very old. One thinks of the 1995 Chicago heat wave during which 750 mostly poor and elderly people died over a five day period because they were locked inside their homes without air conditioning and windows closed for fear of intruders. The current death toll -- 1,355 Palestinians, most of them civilians and 59 Israelis, most of them soldiers --will only get worse. This is not a just war. Nancy Scheper-Hughes Professor Anthropology Chair, Doctoral Program in Medical Anthropology University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 510-590-6345 [email protected]
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:56:17 +0000
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