Human vs. Natural Disaster

I am sure those of you who have been following my blog have been

wondering whether I was going to post something during this week .  I

actually hesitated for a long while about reacting  to the

irresponsible statement by the president of the USA regarding

Jerusalem.  Not only  was it irresponsible, the logic behind it that

it was going to promote peace seems a very lopsided logic.  Can  the

whole world be so stupid to buy such a statement?  Well the meeting

of the Security Council, the day after his statement, proved that they

are not.    Any way I could not help but make an analogy between the

natural disaster of fires along Southern California and the human

disaster that Mr. Trump has caused.  He put the  region on fire, just

as the flames did to that beautiful region of the USA.  The only

difference is that he deliberately chose the time and method to

inflict the disaster which was cruel and without any thought of the

repercussions,  whereas the people of Southern Californian  had no

choice.

On Jim Wall’s column Laurie Salameh writes that Mr. Trump has stolen

our  Christmas. For the Palestinians and for the people of Southern

California Christmas has certainly been stolen.  I can just see the

many families who have been displaced and who lost their homes during

the fires, which is a very familiar scene to us as Palestinians.

Every day the occupation forces leave some families out on the streets

after blowing up their homes.  Another daily human disaster.

No Mr. Trump you are not going to deprive us of our Christmas.  After

all Christ himself was born in Palestine and the Christmas tree which

was lit in Bethlehem, the city of his birth,  will be lit again.  But

we are concerned for  our young people who will be the victims of the

brutality of the Israeli army.  It is their  presence that provokes

those young men and women, who have every right to protest such a

grave injustice which you Mr. Trump have inflicted on a whole nation.