The Gaza Massacre: Are We Shocked Yet?

Israel “retaliated” and Gaza is burying more than 155 people today… and trying to treat 250 wounded in a hospital with no electricity. What more has to happen for the int’l community to speak of a massacre? We are taught to remember the genocide in the 40’s. No, we are punished for refusing to agree on the details. Like nothing else happened afterwards that is worth remembering with such intensity. How long will it take us to forget what happened today?

Manipulators and hypocrites write the loudest reports, while law makers mute morality.

The world should bow down in shame for expecting the people of Gaza to forget their daily sorrows and years, no, decades of suffering. The kind no sane person should undergo. The kind no sane person can let go without a fight, even while knowing it could cost them their lives. What kind of person would expect the people of Palestine to forget those who died today and yesterday and to start a jolly life ignoring the blood of their sisters and brothers?

What kind of people are we to have let it go this far???

Nahi, Nahi…

Today it came to light something that I, and I am certain many others, suspected: India is one big Bollywood movie set. Having watched a few movies from the Indian Industry, it pisses me off how exaggerated the hero finally saves the day and gets the girl. Don’t get me wrong, I am a chick flick kind of girl myself and after all, who doesn’t love a happy ending, but why do the men all have to sound and act like a super queer Sylvester Stallone who can take a lot of deadly punches and a rain of bullets all at the same time and still survive and most likely save the girl and her entire family… at once. Makes a person want to scream for sanity!

Now the problem is not the actors or the people they play or even the movies. The problem is the average Indian, when he lives his life in one of those movies. Something in me tells me not to generalize, but is it really a generalization when trained military professionals handle their job like each of them is a Bollywood hero?

An example: On the 18^th of November the Indian navy patrolling the waters off the coast of Somalia sank what they called a “pirate mother ship”, after the pirates on board opened fire on them. The Indians firing on that ship caused it to explode and according to them, the pirates could escape in speed boats. A week later the “mother ship” turned out to be a Thai fishing boat. A memo was sent around to ships patrolling that area that the Thai vessel had been seized by pirates. Yet, when the Indian “heroes” arrived at the scene, they saw a “mother ship” that needed to be blown up. A Cambodian crewman was fished out of water six days later by a passing ship. Fourteen others are still missing.

It’s not just the military, the police live in Bollywood as well. Shortly after the navy stars blew up the “pirate mother ship” and most likely killed 14 innocent fishermen on board, hotels in Mumbai were seized by what the Indians blamed on “Pakistani terrorists”. Regardless of the question “Who did it!?”, which is on everyone’s mind, one has to look at what the Indian forces did to protect the innocents. Today, the BBC told the story of a gynaecologist who was trapped in one of the hotels and barricaded himself along with others into a room until police officers told them it was safe to leave because they cornered the gunmen on a different floor. About 30 people followed them, only to get killed… each one of them. The gynaecologist, along with other survivors blame the police for risking people’s lives which resulted in the death of dozens. Obviously they too thought they were acting along with Salman Khan in an overly dramatized scene where it’s no big deal to put people in the line of fire since the bullets never hit them if not bounce off their bodies.

Considering India is the new up and coming global power, I can’t help but wonder if we should all take drama classes sooner or later to keep up with the new world order.