Blind Eye or Blinded ?

Finally I get to post this one. Its been a long time since this was in my drafts section. I should admit, the last 2months was not the best time of life. But at the end of it all, I am recovering. So I thought I might as well back into finishing this one. So here goes…

In the last 6months, my country had seen a lot of bloodshed. The terrorist attack in the country in November, still finds the columns of the newspaper because of the way it changed people's life forever. The whole world stood by my country & condemned the attack. The television channels around the world aired pictures of the attacks. People around the world united to provide help & support to those who lost their loved ones. We felt we were not alone, but there were a million hands to reach out & help us.

                Then there was the corner of the world nobody cares for. The land of the doomed. A place where the air is filled with stench of blood &  babies are born directly into the battlefield. The small piece of land called as Palestine. The land & its people often ignored & left alone to die. We are either blinded or prefer to close our eyes to the atrocities on this land. Thousands of Palestine people fled their land in search of peace & find shelter in dingy refugee camps. Other stay behind, awaiting death. Images of Palestinian children killed in the attack is nothing new for the rest of the world. They hear the cries only through these images & even these are forgotten after the page is flipped.

                It was less than a month back when Israeli forces slaughtered & killed thousands of innocent Palestinian men, women & children. This was in retaliation to the rocket attacks by some militant group, which had destroyed 3 buildings on the Israeli side. The human casualty for Israel due to these attacks was 0. The present Israeli government who was at the brink of elections saw this as the right opportunity to gain the trust of their people, by lashing out against its neighbor. Over the next 3 weeks Israeli forces launched massive attacks in Gaza which killed more than 7500 people. The world looked on for weeks while thousands were rendered homeless. Then the most shocking thing happened, when the leaders of the powerful nations, the leader of the so called “world police” justified the actions of Israel. It justified the tough stance taken by Israel & went on to even advocate that as a policy to fight terror. Well to be honest, I wasn’t entirely surprised because I had seen similar actions taken by the “world police” to fight terrorism.

After a month & half of war, the UN stepped in & demanded peace. By then the war was no more news for the people. I remember trying to find out the details about the war in the daily newspaper & finally gave up. It seems sports was more important that day, than the few dead school kids killed in Palestine. The land of the doomed continues to be centre of war no matter the day or the time & the people living in the fear of death. Presidents changed, governments fell but the innocents continues to die. The actions of the powerful are seldom questioned & the consequences ignored. And at the end of it all, to think, that all of this wouldn’t have happened if the Fuhrer hadn't left his job half done...