Mother's Day in Palestine

Yesterday, March 21 was Mother’s Day in the Arab World.  It was chosen to coincide with Spring, and the weather today is a truly Spring Day.  But unfortunately, the political weather is as gloomy and morbid as ever. 

Despite the fact that I am blessed with having both my children and some of the grandchildren around to celebrate the day with, I could not but think of all the mothers in Gaza who have  lost their children in this unwarranted war.  Over and above the children who lost their mothers as well as their fathers and other siblings.  Let alone all the Palestinian mothers whose children have been languishing in Israeli jails for years. 

On this usually joyful occasion, please think of those bereaved mothers, and those orphaned children on this special Mother’s Day in Gaza

In the meantime, we continue to wonder how  the world can watch such a genocide, especially when the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared  emphatically   and openly  after October 7 that he was going to raze Gaza completely.  And razing it is what he has been doing since day one.  Netanyahu does not mince words.  What he says he does.  So all those shuttle trips of Mr. Blinken and meetings with Arab leaders to discuss a ceasefire and the day after,  are futile as long as the US is still supplying Israel with money and arms.   Furthermore,  we all remember how Mr. Netanyahu had displayed a map at the UN session showing Israel from the river to the sea, with no Palestine. 

How long will Mr.  Biden and his Western allies continue to block all efforts to put an end to this genocide?