…dobijo ti civilisti nenadoma imena in priimke in pridejo na naslovnice in v prime time vseh velikih zahodnih medijev:

Takole je danes Vanessa Mobley, urednica komentarjev v New York Timesu, na katerega sem naročen, v newsletterju pospremila kolumno Joséja Andrésa, ustanovitelja World Central Kitchen, katerega sedem zaposlenih (volonterjev, ki so Palestincem razdeljevali hrano) je izraelska vojska (očigledno namerno in hladnokrvno) ubila:

When news of the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers by an Israeli strike in Gaza broke this week, I was already asleep. But when I woke up Tuesday and learned what had happened, I knew that Times readers would want to hear from the chef José Andrés, who founded the organization.

Times Opinion strives, among other things, to bring readers the voices of individuals who are changing the world. As Op-Ed editor in charge of guest essays, I search for perspectives that will offer readers a view on events that is not available elsewhere.

In founding World Central Kitchen, Andrés has used his culinary, logistical and political ingenuity to bring millions of hot meals to people around the world. But now, that work has tragically run up against the violence of a conflict in which tens of thousands of civilians have died, and many, many others (some of whom we have heardfrom) have had lives shattered and upended.

After I made contact with Andrés’s team, and learned that he was willing to share his perspective on the deaths of Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, John Chapman, Jacob Flickinger, Zomi Frankcom, James Henderson, James Kirby and Damian Sobol, I immediately started thinking: how would the deaths of these humanitarian aid workers affect the people they died trying to help?

In the guest essay that was published yesterday, Andrés highlights the consequences of World Central Kitchen and at least one other humanitarian food aid group suspending operations while residents of Gaza are at risk of famine.

And he makes an eloquent case for the mission his slain colleagues lost their lives serving: “Their work was based on the simple belief that food is a universal human right.”

Da ne bo pomote, zgrožen sem nad izraelskim pobojem sedmih volonterjev, ki so Palestincem delili hrano in absolutno se strinjam s poantami iz Andresovega komentarja. Moti me le, da so New York Times in praktično vsi ostali veliki zahodni mediji ostajali tiho ob namernem poboju več kot 30 tisoč nedolžnih palestinskih civilistov, od tega več kot 15 tisoč otrok, ali pa njihove poboje pospremili z evfemističnimi naslovi in komentarji (da so “umrli” ali “izgubili življenje” namesto, da so bili “ustreljeni”, “pobiti”, “zmasakrirani” s strani izraelske vojske).

Moti me hipokrizija, da je 30 tisoč grozovito pobitih palestinskih civilistov zgolj amorfna gmota “osebkov nižje rase”, ko pa izraelska vojska na enak način pobije sedem belih civilistov, dobijo ti civilisti nenadoma imena in pridejo na naslovnice in v prime time vseh velikih zahodnih medijev.

In vendar: Je s tem pobojem sedmih belih civilistov Izrael le prestopil Rubikon in bodo zdaj proti njemu končno uvedene sankcije?