Blitzkrieg: London, Pearl Harbor, Gaza, Yemen
On the night of September 7, 1940, the Nazi Luftwaffe began a inhumanly
murderous bombing blitz on the helpless city of London. For the next
eight terror-filled months, death from the skies continued to rain down
on heroic British citizens every single night, night after horrific
night -- and yet the plucky British still managed to keep a stiff upper
lip and even go on about their business during daylight hours, each one
knowing full well that each day could be their very last.
Archibald Macleish wrote a tribute to Edward R. Murrow, the gutsy
American reporter who broadcasted from London to America, on the radio
night after night, making the horrors of what the Nazis were doing to
London vividly known to the American people. "You have destroyed the
superstition that what is done beyond 3000 miles of water is not really
done at all," wrote Macleish. https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062436665/the-american-agent/
Night after night, month after month, Winston Churchill and the people
of London endured Hitler's terrible and deadly bombing raids. Americans
held their breath. Would the valiant and defenseless Londoners even
survive yet another night of these brutal attacks?
But how come the citizens of London during Hitler's horrific blitz of
monstrous destruction are such gritty and stoic heroes -- and yet the
citizens of Yemen and Gaza are not?
And then there came Pearl Harbor -- and Americans suddenly knew first-hand what such horrors were actually like. On just one sunny Sunday morning in lovely Hawaii, 2403 Americans were murdered in cold blood by yet another evil blitzkrieg from the skies. Americans went into paroxysms of indignation and and outrage and grief. "Stop this horror!" they cried.
And then there came Pearl Harbor -- and Americans suddenly knew first-hand what such horrors were actually like. On just one sunny Sunday morning in lovely Hawaii, 2403 Americans were murdered in cold blood by yet another evil blitzkrieg from the skies. Americans went into paroxysms of indignation and and outrage and grief. "Stop this horror!" they cried.
And yet heroic Yemeni have endured this very same type of nightmare
blitzkrieg from the Saudis night after night for years now. And the
citizens of Gaza have too. Yet where are America's modern-day Edward R.
Murrows? And where is America's indignation and outrage and grief for this
heinous slaughter? "Oh. Them. They are only Muslims. They can't be
heroes, They can't feel pain. They don't count." And the lethal and
cruel bombs that are dropped on Yemen and Gaza each horrific night are
not being manufactured and supplied by Tojo or Hitler -- but by the good
old USA. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/05/israel-again-bombs-gaza-but-is-it-in-response.html
That's just evil, cold-hearted and mean.
And anyone who has ever survived the ruthless attacks on London and
Pearl Harbor will have to agree that the people of Yemen and Gaza are
being heroic as well -- to endure the exact same torture night after
night. To quote Edward R. Murrow himself, "How long these people will
stand up to this sort of thing I don't know, but tonight they're
magnificent." https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/260953-2019-05-09-what-i-saw-in-gaza-changed-me-forever.htm
The very same thing can be said about the heroic men, women and
children of Gaza and Yemen. And we Americans? The same thing can be
said about us that was said about Hitler and Tojo. Do we really want to
be linked with these two evil and greedy colonialist monsters in future
history books as well? If not, then perhaps it's time to pull the plug
on our own evil Luftwaffe and our own greedy blitzkrieg on defenseless
civilians "beyond 3000 miles away". https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/05/14/gabbard-says-shed-drop-all-charges-against-assange-and-snowden/
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