Yesterday was Christmas, for the first time this new year… at least for all those who follow the Julian calendar, which numbers approx. 300 million orthodox Christian people, foremost throughout Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Russia.
What I like with this Christmas is that is somehow is not as commercialised as the Catholic one on December 24th. The January 7th Christmas is in celebration to the birth of Christ. Presents were given at New Years Eve.
Both Christmases this time has been overshadowed by the war in Gaza, totally disregarding the Christmas message of love and peace.
The utterly hypocritical world is now overflowing with reports and ugly pictures showing the sufferings of the Palestinian civilians. This is of course an outright disgrace that innocent people are being bombed. Both Israel as well as Hamas are to blame. Hamas in particular, as their fighters choose to hide behind the innocent civilians when they shoot at the enemy. This simply proves the Hamas fighters to be no more than brainless cowards.
The international society however is also to blame. For years now, the Palestinian problem has been at a deadlock. Hamas has been shelling Israeli civilians with rockets.
USA could, for all the wrong reasons, invade Iraq and persuaded all their loyal followers to send their soldiers down there. And also USA went together with all its followers into Afghanistan. The civilian sufferings in these two countries have been far more terrible than in Palestine. However any suffering is surely unacceptable.
The Palestinian problems are compared to those of Afghanistan and Iraq merely a trifle. How can it be that USA has done nothing in that case? Why has not USA together with all its loyal followers gone to Israel and Palestine and with their mighty power and force made up a society that would work? Thrown out all the militant morons of Hamas and gone to Lebanon and got rid of the Hezbollah idiots there? That could be done much easier than to cleanse Afghanistan and Iraq. And the people of Palestine and Israel could go on with their lives, without living in constant danger and fear.
But the people of Palestine are poor people with no oil or other natural recourses. They can be of little future economical gain for the USA. Iraq has lots of oil, and Afghanistan also has some oil and is strategically placed for the oil trade with future pipelines from Central Asia to Pakistan or India. So the war in Iraq and Afghanistan are in first place a financial investment for the USA. Interference in Palestine would be only to help people, which of course USA has no interest whatsoever in. And all the loyal followers of USA agree fully, and give the press a few statements of how terrible it is that innocent civilians are suffering; but otherwise they do nothing. The Palestinians do not possess anything of future value. They are merely people.
The message that Christ gave of love and peace, has never seemed to carry any true value, in any of the countries that considers themselves to be Christians.
So Merry Christmas… to all the suffering people of Palestine, and all other suffering poor people around the world
