WHEN THE MASSACRES END HOW DO WE GET OVER A GENOCIDE
January 7, 2024
Another outstanding and powerful speech by Ambassador @majedbamya , the
Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations.
Here Bamya addresses the UN Security Council asking “One day the massacres will stop but how do we get over it…the mass graves, the inability to bury our loved ones…the 1000 Palestinian children amputated without anaesthesia…how do you get over a genocide…we will be asked nevertheless to move on…we will be asked to be peaceful, to be grateful…Israel is never asked to be peaceful, to be grateful…this is the ultimate express of racism. We should all our humanity recognised…Until whey?”
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English Script:
Majed Bamya: Mr. President, one day the massacres will stop. But how will we get over it? How will we get over the mass graves? The inability to bury our loved ones. To offer them a dignified burial. Seeing them in plastic bags. How will we get over the 1000 Palestinian children amputated without anesthesia?
We will be asked, nevertheless, despite all that we are enduring and all that we have endured for 75 years, to move on, to count our dead one more time, to count our wounded, our permanently disabled. The people scarred for life. The millions of victims and move on. We will be asked to be peaceful. We will be asked to be grateful that this horrible chapter, among so many other chapters, even though this one is the worst one we have gone through, is over. Until the next one begins.
This is the ultimate expression of double standards. The other side is never asked to move on if Israelis are killed. Never asked to be peaceful in such situations. This is the ultimate expression of racism, of dehumanization of our nation. We should all be subject to the same rules, to the same expectations. We should all have our humanity recognized and respected.
Those who have dared till now to find a way or another to justify what is happening in the Gaza Strip will have to endure shame forever. For those calling on our people not to seek vengeance, not to resort to violence, they must support our efforts to deliver justice. That is the path we have chosen. Justice, not vengeance. But till now, that path has been obstructed in the face of the Palestinian people, and no one has ever been held accountable for the crimes committed against them.
Israeli impunity cannot be allowed to survive this assault, so finally, Palestinian survivors can live with the sense that the massacres will not resume. The horrors this impunity has led to will continue occurring until this is brought to an end. Mr. President, the world is discovering the true Gaza while Israel is destroying it. They discover, as Israel destroys our university and schools, that we have one of the highest literacy rates in the world.
They discovered Israel destroys our historic mosques and churches, that we have religious diversity and the Christian community in Gaza that is an integral part of our history, our present and our future. The world discovers the name of brave Palestinian journalists and doctors as they learn they were killed. They discover about a young Palestinian generation that was able to be creative and to perform and to try to lead a life in impossible circumstances, only to face death once again.
The world discovers human beings who, despite repeated assaults and a decade and a half of blockades, somehow preserved hope, cultivated it, built their homes to see them destroyed, built them once more, saw them destroyed once more, built them again, built their lives, despite loss and suffering from within the wounds, they were able to rise again, only to face death once again.
They found a way back to life, only to see death and destruction haunting them once more. Until when?
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