This simple but powerful artistic collage by the Palestinian photographer Belal Khalel, couldn't sum up better how I feel about what is going on in Gaza.
The ceasefire broken, whole neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, hundreds of thousands with no place to call home. More than 2,000 dead. More than ten thousand wounded.
The Hamas death cult death firing off rockets and mortars in the general direction of Israel.
While shooting their own people in the street...
The Israeli Death Machine levelling entire apartment buildings.
The ceasefire is holding. The kids are playing again on the beach where four of their friends were killed while playing soccer, by shells from an Israeli gunboat.
But thousands of Palestinian children have been wounded...
The situation in the hospitals is so desperate they can't treat them in Gaza.
“Palestinian health authorities are planning to refer more patients to hospitals outside of Gaza to access life-saving treatment as well as to reduce the case load in the hospitals to a more manageable level.
And I still want to know why the Harper regime is STILL preventing 100 wounded Palestinian kids from being treated in Canada.
On a warm Sunday afternoon, in the leafy lanes of Ward's Island, with the last flowers of the summer in full bloom, it should have been possible to forget about the horror of Gaza.
At least for a few hours. Especially now that another shaky truce has been announced.
But in this Gaza summer, how can I forget nightmare images like this one?
Or these?
So many children killed. Slaughtered like lambs.
So many wounded and traumatized.
He likes to pose as Israel's best friend. Or as Benjamin Netanyahu's best buddy.
And would have us believe that supporting the right-wing Netanyahu regime is the best way to support Israel.
When it is not, for as Tony Burman points out, Harper's buddy Benny may be the only winner of the savage War on Gaza.
Congratulations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mission accomplished — at least on your terms.
Your government’s war on Gaza has resulted in more than 1,800 Palestinian deaths, most of them civilian, including nearly 400 children. But as the latest ceasefire began Tuesday, only three Israeli civilians had been killed and your approval rating among fellow Israelis stood at an overwhelming 77 per cent.
But he's no real friend of Israel either...
The other day I told you about a tiny candle of decency in the darkness that is Gaza.
Ontario's plan to bring wounded children to be treated in the province's hospitals.
The Ontario government is willing to provide medical care to 100 injured children from Gaza, it said Tuesday – several days after a Palestinian-Canadian doctor made a public plea to bring kids to Canada for treatment.
And I said that was MY Canada.
But sadly my Canada isn't Harperland, and the Cons are no better than beasts.
When I read stories like this one.
A deadly attack on a school in the city of Rafah in the south of Gaza has been denounced as a "moral outrage" and "criminal act" by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon.
At least seven people were killed and dozens more wounded after a projectile struck a street outside the school gateson Sunday morning.
The school was sheltering more than 3,000 people displaced by fighting in the area.
Or see the pictures of its ghastly aftermath...
I give thanks for the brave journalists risking their lives to bring us the story, including the CBC's Paul Hunter.
I spent my last day in Scotland in this beautiful highland forest with Sébastien and a group of friends, taking turns leaping into the icy waters of a deep gorge.
Celebrating life, trying to forget for a moment the nightmarish state of this world.
And for a while it worked.
But tonight I found myself writing about Gaza. Again.
For how could I ignore that horror when so many in Canada have been so silent?
It was an act of unspeakable barbarity. One that has been condemned by governments all over the world.
The US and UN have condemned the shelling of a school housing displaced civilians in Gaza.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the attack, which killed 16, was "outrageous".
"I condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms. It is outrageous. It is unjustifiable, and it demands accountability and justice.
"Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children."
And defended only by those who carried it out, and by the monstrous beast Stephen Harper.
