"There is a striking discrepancy between the lack of feeling aroused by the deaths of tens of thousands of human beings—in their majority anonymous, unrecorded by the authorities and denied the dignity of a proper burial—with that excited by, say, the 1,000 lives lost in the crossing from East to West Germany during the Cold War. There is one obvious explanation: an African, an Arab or an Afghani who drowns in the Mediterranean, in flight from war, oppression or extreme poverty, is not seen as a human being in the same way as the Germans who were trying to flee ‘communism’ and were hailed as martyrs for liberty."
Endemic racism
One photo shows a volunteer with the Spanish Red Cross comforting a migrant (above) on a beach in Ceuta. The young woman, identified as Luna, told Spanish TV she did not know the man's name, only that he had come from Senegal.
"He was crying, I held out my hand and he hugged me," she told RTVE.
After the image of the encounter was shared widely online, the 20-year-old said she had been bombarded with sexist and racist comments, and had decided to protect her social media accounts. (The BBC)
Both Angela Merkel and Heiko Mass reiterated their support, and open racism and German imperialism’s priority when they declared that Israel had “the right to defend itself” against Hamas rockets. Obviously, we would all have seen the imminent annihilation of Israel had not Hamas agreed to a truce!
Also complicit in this crime are Boris Johnson and Joe Biden.
Now even the liberal Financial Times thinks that Israel has lost this war.
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