Gaza or Haiti?
Checking all the news channels tonight to find some world news other than the Republican victory in Massachusetts, I saw a brief report that there was a serious 5.9 earthquake in Haiti today. I was saddened and surprised to hear this terrible news. But suddenly this news channel turned to more talking heads talking about the election yesterday. I quickly searched the other news channels to find only more talk about the election and nothing on Haiti. I searched the internet for Haiti earthquake but could only find that the new earthquake was this morning, and lots of fund raising sites for Haiti and stories about the rescue.
I feel like shouting “Wake Up People”, people are dying in Haiti while food, water and medical supplies are not getting to the persons who need them. What good is all the fund raising when the aid is getting there so slowly? Despite this new earthquake the media is losing interest in Haiti using a survival story or fundraiser story here and there. The US military has landed thousands of troops at the Haiti airport while Doctors Without Borders airplanes with medical supplies are turned away. Where are the major hospital ships off shore of the coast of Haiti? Where is the food, medical supplies and water to the people after 8 days?
People in Gaza of Palestine are still suffering the siege of Gaza and lack food, water and medical supplies. After the military invasion of Israel into Gaza the landscape of Gaza looks that of Haiti. People are dying, like in Haiti, for lack of food, water and medical supplies.
A local young man was buried today who was sent to Iraq for 9 months to kill or be killed and survived only to be sent to Afghanistan where he was killed.
So while we talk and talk and have fundraisers, the killing and violence go on. I am so tired of words (TOW) and, inspired by Words of Inspiration, seek action. A voice cries in the wilderness: Wake Up People.
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