OPINIONS

Wed 23 Jul 2025 9:11 am - Jerusalem Time

When the world's conscience died, only death passes by every morning to check on those who remain.

Dr. Rabhi Doleh

The global conscience died before Palestinian children died of hunger or under the rubble of their families' homes that were destroyed on top of them, and before their mothers' eyes dried from crying for them.
Two years of killing, genocide, and destruction, of a stifling siege, of ethnic cleansing that is no longer hidden from anyone, not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank, with all its cities, villages, and camps. In every corner of this besieged homeland, life is disappearing: no food, no medicine, no electricity, no safety. Only death passes by every morning to check on those who remain.
The world stands by, idly watching, not moving to save the victims of this bereaved people, but contenting itself with counting them, as if measuring the magnitude of pain and its impact without caring about the screams of the wounded! For months, they have been discussing the issue of bringing in "humanitarian aid," as if it were a logistical crisis rather than a humanitarian tragedy! But the truth is clear: they do not even belong to this humanity. Those who truly belong do not equate the executioner with the victim, and do not hesitate to save a child dying under siege.
They don't want us to hear our voices. Every time we get closer to communicating the truth, they create a new crisis that diverts attention. Sometimes in Iran, sometimes in Sweida, sometimes in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Every week, they seek a new spectacle to cover up the ongoing massacres in Palestine.
The slaughter continues, silence is complicit, Palestinian blood is shed without a price, and Gaza remains a symbol of tragedy and betrayal. The West Bank is being left to the crimes of settlers and the rampage of the occupation army, without protection, without a position, without justice.
Reality proves that what is being perpetrated against us is not merely the result of the world's silence, but rather its complicity. Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality, but rather complicity in the crime. Neutrality on issues of genocide cannot be considered a position, but rather a blatant betrayal.
What is happening in Palestine is not an internal affair, nor a balanced war, but an ongoing crime. The occupier is participating with weapons, the world is participating with indifference, and some of us are participating with silence or normalization.
Palestine bleeds alone, but it must not remain alone. Whoever wants to talk about values and humanity should start with Palestine, where humanity is being violated every moment. Whoever wants to prove the sincerity of their positions should stop manipulating the moral compass. This wound is not private, but rather a wound for us all, and the shame of silence will haunt everyone who witnessed and remained silent.

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