Colin Sheridan: Lip service won't save a single Palestinian life
Under the cover of self defence, Benjamin Netanyahu's IDF are effectively carrying out an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Yet we sit here and listen as he addresses the UN General Assembly
Late last year, Israel's foreign minister Eli Cohen brought Micheál Martin to meet Haim Peretz, whose home was damaged in a Hamas rocket attack. Since then, Israel has killed some 40,000 people in Palestine and Lebanon. Picture: Miri Shimonovich/DFA
Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience as a peacekeeper with the United Nations, having lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia, West Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine.
THE dogs are eating the dead. That is not hyperbole engineered to appall, but eyewitness testimony from some one who was forced to watch, day after day, as he set about trying to stay alive, and save lives, in Gaza.
The dogs are eating the dead, he said, and that was over nine months ago, around Christmas time when the death toll was estimated to be half what it is now. Before the forced starvation and the polio and the 40-degree summer heat. Before the tents became fireballs and incinerated the children.
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