Gaza: Oppression, and the Blindness of Selective Morality

Gaza: Oppression, and the Blindness of Selective Morality

A reflective monologue exposing the roots of Gaza’s rage, questioning selective morality, and challenging Christian complicity in injustice

Eustace Shokpeka, first: it was not UNPROVOKED.

Imagine a Nazi German concentration camp that somehow continues to exist 80 years after the end of WWII. Get the picture? Now modify it with the facts.

Gaza is not quite a Nazi concentration camp, but the people are treated like scum.

Back to the Nazi concentration camps - At the end of the war, with Germany defeated, the inmates set upon the SS guards they could lay hands on and beat them to death.

It is normal to hate the one who treated you like a dog, no, far less than a dog. The one who killed your family, starved you for only one crime: Your religion.

Israel did not just “face an attack.” Decades of cruelty turned Gazans into the monsters who launched those raids on October 6/7, or whatever the exact date was.

And even saying “Israel” is not correct. Netanyahu is the architect of the continued repression of Palestinian Muslims.

Here is the part we do not like to admit: when people are denied dignity for generations, they eventually express their humanity in the ugliest possible ways. Not because they were born evil, but because oppression rots the soul. The one who wields the whip always pretends to be shocked when the whipped finally turns and bites. That is the old story of empire, from Rome to Britain to apartheid South Africa. Gaza is simply the latest chapter in a very old book.

And let us not deceive ourselves with selective morality. If your own community had been blockaded for 17 years, denied clean water, denied movement, bombed in cycles, and forced to raise children on rubble and grief, you would not be quoting scripture at me. You would be praying that your rage does not consume your last shred of sanity. We judge Palestinians from the comfort of dry homes and stable electricity. They judge life from funerals. Yet somehow we expect them to behave like saints while their oppressors behave like Pharaoh.

Hope this helps.

Don Kenobi