Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

    History shows that polling began by George Gallup in the 1930’s. Since then, it  has become a mainstay of the social and political fabric of America. Wikipedia defines polling as a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Consequently, one could conclude that the validity of the poll is dependent upon  who’s included in the sample as well as the size of it.

     Amnesty International considers that modern-day apartheid occurs when one group of people seizes land and property, kills innocent people at will, forces transfers, enacts drastic movement restrictions, and denies nationality and citizenship to residents who are unliked.

     The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has already reached nightmarish proportions with shortages of food, clean drinking water, medical supplies and fuel needed for hospitals to operate reaching dangerously low levels. Children are suffering and dying! Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that this will be a protracted struggle; hopefully, he will be proven wrong. The sooner this war is ended, the better for all concerned. This includes Israelis.

     In the Middle East today, Joe Biden’s choice is between wholeheartedly supporting Israel and doing all he can to protect the innocents in Gaza. He’s trying to do both, but he is not satisfying advocates of either policy.

Just war theory makes the world numb to human slaughter. Dead children, and all other innocent victims, become abstractions, collateral damage. It’s almost as though the role of lone-nut mass murderers — killers who clearly have no moral justification to walk into a shopping mall or school classroom or bowling alley and start shooting — is to remind the world that lives are precious and murders equal hell.