Killing By Silence: The International Community’s Silence On The Israeli Aggression On Gaza Strip By R.Sivakumar

Killing By Silence: The International Community’s Silence On The Israeli Aggression On Gaza Strip

By R.Sivakumar

31 August, 2014
Countercurrents.org

The Palestine issue has once again surfaced this year making deep etchings in the history of the modern world. It is long since, it has become a regular affair in the annals of the globalized modern world. The Gaza strip and West bank territories of the Palestine state are crushed, bombarded, suffocated by a powerful Israel, which never listens to any other nation’s call for peace.

Though the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza strip are nothing new, the shocking fact that can’t go unnoticed is that, the causalities are heavily tilted on one side. The recent estimates show that at least 2000 civilians have been killed by Israeli bombings. The attacks took place not on some war zone but on neighborhoods and public utility buildings like hospitals and schools. It is no wonder that the children and women are the worst affected in such acts of inhuman, unprincipled warfare. The mode of the warfare is as unscrupulous as the cause of the war.

All this happens in a modern globalized world where Israel happens to be a special entity like no other nation ever before or even ever after. The Israel - US tacit relationship is a singular aberration in US foreign policy which is otherwise “humanitarian” in nature. Israel is a special entity in the present fabric of Nation-State world, right from its birth to its survival as a nation at the cost of thousands of civilian deaths. More special is the silence of the International Community, which is otherwise becoming louder and univocal in social and business forums. The irony of the present era is that, where Globalization is rampantly intrusive in everyone’s life, issues like Israeli subjugation of Palestinians remain local.

There is no denying that the denizens of this world and their heads of state are aware about the atrocities of Israel, 24x7 news channels dish out every single update on the attacks, but what is worrying is the lack of any reaction from any of them. It seems that neither the Heads of Nations – the Presidents and Prime Ministers nor their subjects are inclined to react to such mayhems, just because they are busy watching their news televisions. May be their urge to respond to such acts against humanity have become so weak, that a mere mentioning of Israel’s excesses over the tea, suffices them. Any mass protest movements against anti human actions now lie only in the distant past. The world community’s opposition to the apartheid in South Arica, the US involvement in the Vietnam, the Independence struggles of the colonial era are now safely stacked in the racks of history never to be repeated again, especially in a globalized uni-market world order.

The citizen of this present networked world, with his gadgets has become atomic and he is slowly being ripped of any social affiliations. The nations too have come a long way from forming leagues like the non-aligned movements and boycotting anti-human nations in the international politics. Even India, which has a long history of giving voice to the suppressed communities, opposed nations like the apartied South Africa, Supported Dalai Lama against China, fought with Pakistan for freeing the Bangladesh, has now become friend of nation that is ruthless in killing civilian non-combatants. Nehruvian India is being replaced by a new version of Indian foreign policy which states that both the aggressor and the victim are its friends. The Nehruvian ideals calls for boycotting Israel in every sphere of international activity, whereas the recent Indian governments have become buyers of Israeli war machines.

The present episode of Israeli aggression on Gaza has killed around two thousand civilians but the more chilling fact is that the International community has let this to happen by choosing to remain quite. Today the international community exchanges Information, communication and above all else, multinational products more rigorously than ever before. The global village is shrinking ever closer and closer but it turns out to be a mute spectator to whatever anomaly that is taking place in the global theater, unless its constituents are themselves directly affected.

R.Sivakumar, Assistant Professor, The New College, Chennai
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