Newborns taken off incubators wrapped in foil to keep them alive, hospital director says
Premature babies at Gaza’s largest hospital are being wrapped in foil and placed next to hot water in a desperate bid to keep them alive, the hospital director warned, as Israeli firepower continues to pound surrounding streets and dwindling fuel reserves run low, leaving the facility unable to function.
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YUP! These little ones are a real danger to the Israelites. Even if they were children of Hamas members, they don’t deserve what’s happening to them.
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Hello Nan. No one does. Man’s inhumanity to man! Today I have run out of words to say to express what I feel, how I hurt, how much I want to rage. I just listened to a doctor who was asked why he did not leave a hospital describe looking into the fearful eyes of the people he was looking after, of trying to comfort the children along with family. He had children. At the end of the report of his interview, the information came he died in one of the bombings. How does this stop terrorism, to create more hate and anger. To have more angry kids growing up into more angry adults? Are there any adults left for the kids of the world to turn too? Sorry Nan, my mind was already reeling all night and then to get immersed in such hate and despair. I feel I am getting numb, wondering who more I need to reach that might have a way to stop the deaths. Right now with all this going on, our elected leaders on the right still find time to try to pick a fist fight with a witness in the Senate building. Hugs. Scottie
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To have more angry kids growing up into more angry adults?
Super good point!! But of course, no one considers that. They’re too busy defending their “rights.” And this is true even within our own borders.
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The demonising of a social group inevitably leads to their dehumanising and then to this kind of barbarity. This case it’s the Palestinians, but it happens to other ethnic groups and almost every minority at some time or other. Just look at whats happening to LGBTQIA+ in the US, eastern Europe and Africa. If Trump gets to build his mega “mental asylums”, guess where most of us neurodivergent folk will end up.
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Hi Barry. I agree. Thank you for your always calm thoughtful approach to things I post. I admit today I am not centered well. I think you have seen my morning post. Then after finally settling at my computers thinking I had gotten able to deal with the morning news, I get hit with the war crimes going on in Gaza. There appears to be no adults willing to say stop, enough death on both sides. There should be no more. No more dead babies, no more shattered parents, no more destroyed families. Can we not find someone, some adult with authority to simply say: No more, everyone stop, we will not kill any more today! Sorry I can not respond better Barry, I am running very close to the edge right now. Best wishes. Scottie
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The plight of the Palestinians is not unique but for some reason gets much more attention. I have deliberately chosen to limit my exposure to ongoing reports on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine (and elsewhere) and instead concentrate on giving what support I can to humanitarian agencies. Even token support helps me feel I’m doing something useful and not being helpless. For me, a sense of helplessness brings back unpleasant memories of the past.
For me here in Aotearoa, Gaza is literally on the other side of the world, but Myanmar is almost a neighbour so I am possibly more aware of the genocide occurring there than people in North America or Europe.
What I find hypocritical is that the Rohingya have been largely ignored and abandoned by the international community – both by governments and humanitarian groups, even though they have been subjected to even greater systematic human rights abuses than the Palestinians. To make matter worse, the Rohingya have been mostly passive and defenceless unlike the Palestinians where some have chosen to fight terror with terror.
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Hi Barry. I understand what you mean about a sense of helplessness brings back unpleasant memories of the past. My understanding of Myanmar is limited, as you say it has not gotten my news time. But is that the attacks on Muslims by Buddhist? If so I was shocked to find that what I normally thought of as peaceful Buddhist could attack and murder others. Please feel free to educate me and our community to what you are talking about. I admit that in the US news is not even as you can see, it often revolves around the idea of how does this affect me. Best wishes. Scottie
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The plight of the Rohingya people is a complex and tragic issue that has been ongoing for decades. The Rohingya are a Muslim minority group in Myanmar, who have faced persecution, discrimination, and violence from the Buddhist-majority government and military. They have been denied citizenship, basic rights, and access to education, health care, and livelihoods. They have also been subjected to brutal attacks, killings, rapes, and arson by the security forces and local mobs, forcing hundreds of thousands of them to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh and other countries. The UN has described the situation as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and a possible genocide.
There are many sources of information regarding the Rohingya crisis, but some of the most reliable and comprehensive ones are:
Rohingya conflict – Wikipedia: This article provides a detailed overview of the historical, political, and social background of the conflict, as well as the current situation, the actors involved, the casualties, and the international response. It also has a list of references and external links for further reading.
Myanmar Rohingya: What you need to know about the crisis – BBC News: This article summaries the main facts and figures about the crisis, such as the number of Rohingya killed, displaced, and persecuted, the causes and consequences of the violence, and the role of the Myanmar government and the international community. It also has a timeline of key events, maps, photos, and videos to illustrate the situation.
Rohingya genocide – Wikipedia: This article focuses on the allegations of genocide against the Rohingya by the Myanmar military, and the evidence and arguments for and against this claim. It also discusses the legal and humanitarian implications of the genocide label, and the efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice..
Source: Conversation with Bing, 11/16/2023
(1) Rohingya conflict – Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_conflict.
(2) Myanmar Rohingya: What you need to know about the crisis. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41566561.
(3) Rohingya genocide – Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide.
(4) en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_conflict.
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Thank you Barry. I wonder why people can not understand that causing other people and groups hardship only promotes hate and anger. But treating people decently, with kindness, dignity, equality creates positive goodwill and the same treatment back. If the Israeli government had not spent 70 years basically terrorizing and making a slave / oppressed populations, they wouldn’t have created the very decades of hate they face. If the Buddhist-majority government had treated the Rohingya decently with kindness and friendship, they would now be working together to be a better country. The common point I see in these hatreds is religion. You have a different religion or don’t accept my religion as superior then I must hurt you, then you and your descendants learn to hate me and mine … so on and into the future non-stop. I wish human egos were not so fragile. Thanks for the links. Best wishes. Scottie
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Hi Scottie. You could just as easily argue the common point as being language or ethnicity as it is religion, or more realistically, not respecting those who are different and treating them as less human simply because they are different.
People make judgements about me based on the way I communicate. I’m dishonest, untrustworthy or lying because I avoid eye contact. I’m insincere because my facial expressions don’t align with “accepted norms”. I’m stupid because I frequently fail to “read between the lines”, especially in spoken conversation, and I stumble in creating sentences on the fly. I’m heartless because I don’t display emotions “appropriately”. People who realise that I have prosopagnosia get their kicks out of exploiting the fact that I rely on cues other than facial recognition to identify them. I am “othered” because I’m seen as different, not because of religious belief. Perhaps “othering” isn’t used to justify abuses, but it definitely used as an excuse for it occurring.
I’m sure you can think of situations where people have changed how they treat you when they discover you are gay. Can you be certain that all such people are Christian or religious?
Just being different is sufficient justification for many people to “other” those with differences. And on a large scale these result in the abuses and crimes we have been discussing. I’m confident that religion can be the catalyst that is a unifying bond of a group in their opposition to another group. But it is not necessarily the underlying cause which is, I believe, the “othering” of those who are different.
While the LGBTQIA+ community seems to be better accepted in Aotearoa than in America, it still has its opponents and haters. Likewise there are those who oppose the the rising influence of Māori culture and the honouring the Treaty of Waitangi, which although is the founding document of this country has been mostly ignored by Pākehā (non-Māori). My observation is that LGBTQIA+ rights and Māori rights are not neatly divided along religious lines.
Only a third of Kiwis are Christian and most Kiwis identify as having no religion, but opposition to Māori rights and the growing influence of Māori culture seem to be slightly louder from the non-religious and the wealthy, and of course those who are Pākehā. Opposition to LGBTQIA+ rights might be marginally louder from the religious although it is difficult to judge as it’s not common for people here to self identify what religion, if any, they follow. In this country at least, privilege, power, asset grabbing, in fact all the so called “Deadly sins” are just as much to blame as anything else. And I think that are just as true in Gaza and Myanmar, but on a much larger scale.
Blaming religion for the evils of this world is oversimplifying the reality, and ultimately, seeking solutions based on that ideology are doomed to failure.
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Hi Barry. I agree with you that othering people can be for any reason someone is different or perceived different from a group. But on a national level of wars between nations or specific religious groups, these are by definition caused by intolerance of someone else’s beliefs or religious views. The conflict you mentioned that I agree is not getting the attention it deserves is between two religious groups, the current genocide in Gaza is because of two different religions, the wars like in Yemen between the religious sect of one Muslim run country against another sect running a different Muslim run government. Here in the US, if the Christians ever got their way of pushing out all other religions, there would be a civil war between the sects as to which would rule as the Christian Taliban. Best wishes. Scottie
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