The events at the Gaza Strip remind me of events in the 1940s in my home in the German Ruhr Area. First, there was horrible destruction; then we faced daily struggles to survive economically. At one time, food allowances were reduced to 800 calories per person per day. Finding the food was another problem. We were hungry, but we did not starve. The control over food seems like a combination of hard lesson for Germans and some vindication for the acts of an evil empire. It affected the guilty and the innocent ֱ every man, woman, and child.
The Nazis had killed many millions of Jews, POWs, and undesirable ordinary people. It looks as if the Israelis employ a method they learned from their former enemy: starvation. Now they are fighting Hamas hidden among their hostages ֱ the population of Gaza. I do not question the reason for this war, but I am disturbed by the way it is fought.This artificial famine affects everybody ֱ the guilty and the innocent ֱ all men, women, and children.
Modern techniques and weapons present the way to find the enemy and destroy it without killing a small nation. I have read a military historianֱs comment about war: ֱYou cannot win a war without winning the peoplesֱ hearts.ֱ America did that after the war in Germany. I witnessed that effort, and my heart still belongs to America. That feeling was so great that I wanted to become a part of America. Peace in Gaza seems to be getting further to reach. Is genocide the goal instead of peace?
