We allo have made our opinions on the Gaza War known…….some are solidly in the Israeli camp and cannot see where they are doing anything wrong but “defending themselves”…..and there are those like myself that see it as an abuse of authority….the killing of civilians, in my opinion,, is unacceptable…..the treating of a country’s minority as 2nd class citizens is unacceptable….

I have gone so far (a later post today) to accuse Israel of committing crimes that we have condemned others for committing……and that is where this article caught my eye…….

Newser) – In World War II, a Dutch man risked his life and saved a Jewish boy from the Nazis—a feat that earned Henk Zanoli Israel’s prestigious Righteous Among the Nations medal after the war. This week, the 91-year-old gave it back, reports Haaretz. The reason? An Israeli airstrike killed relatives of his in the Gaza Strip last month. After learning the news, Zanoli went to the Israeli embassy in The Hague and returned the medal, issuing a statement detailing the sacrifices his family made resisting the Nazis during the occupation of Holland. “Against this background, it is particularly shocking and tragic that today, four generations on, our family is faced with the murder of our kin in Gaza,” he wrote. “Murder carried out by the State of Israel.”

In an interview with the New York Times, Zanoli made clear that his problem is with the government of Israel, not the Israeli people. “I gave back my medal because I didn’t agree with what the state of Israel is doing to my family and to the Palestinians on the whole,” he said. Zanoli’s grand-niece is a Dutch diplomat who is married to a Palestinian economist, and an Israeli bomb killed three of the economist’s brothers, along with other relatives. Zanoli said he felt that keeping the medal would be an “insult” to his family.

You may scoff if you will…..but this person knows exactly what genocide and crimes against humanity are all about…….his opinion is the only opinion that should be considered on the crimes that Israel is being accused of from their latest attacks on Palestinians.

Sorry…..but this person’s opinion is the only opinion that carries any weight.

As I have said in the past….it is time for Israel to start acting like a responsible citizen of a civilized world….if they cannot do that then time for them to pay the price as any other depotic regime would have to pay.