Buying Candles

The people from Gaza broke down the wall between them and Egypt and poured into the country. Those that had money bought supplies they were unable to buy because of the blockade. Besides food and fuel, one of the common purchases, was candles. Not the pretty kind like in the photo, but anything that would let them have light at night.

Meanwhile the US is blocking a UN security resolution that requires Israel to let humanitarian aid through because it doesn’t include language against the rocket attacks from Gaza.

There is also no language about the attacks by Israel on Gaza, but that is not a US concern.

Reading the blogs of those suffering there is painful.

“We happen to be sort of be in the eye of the storm as it were. Fierce battles employing mortars, RPGs, and heavy machine gun fire were raging all around our house today, at times only a block away, interdispersed with the thuds of Israeli gunships bombing areas of eastern and northern Gaza.” http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/2007/05/as-gaza-burns.html

The people of Gaza democratically elected a government in an election far cleaner than the last two American ones. They hadn’t learned the rule that not only do you have to have democratic elections, you have to vote the way the American government wants you to.

Meanwhile most of us sit in warm, heated houses, with enough food and when we buy candles it is to make things pretty not for light at night.