Reflections on Gaza and Palestine

Gaza has been breaking my heart since last October.

I mean, Palestine has been breaking my heart for decades.

I can't stand it that after what my family went through,

because we're Jewish in Eastern Europe,

now we've taken so much of that suffering

and imposed it on Palestinian people,

who never did us any harm.

They didn't come to Europe to bother us.

We went there hoping to create a new land.

That's understandable, but what we've done to them

and what we continue to do to them,

and the daily destruction and the death of children,

it just breaks my heart every day.

And the whole world is watching.

When I was a teenager,

my head would spin sometimes when I found out

about what happened in the Second World War.

And I thought, how could the world let this happen?

Well, this is how.

You know, terrible stuff is happening now,

and the world is not doing a thing.