For years, the situation in Israel has been painted as a war of survival, the Israelis against the Palestinians and, by proxy, their Arab neighbors. That no longer reflects the realities on the ground, where the ability of one side to harm the other is in no way balanced. This "real-estate dispute," as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government calls it, is a microcosm of the wildly unbalanced Israeli-Palestinian situation today.
And so we've seen protests in Sheikh Jarrah. We've seen rocks thrown at Israeli police officers who went to break up the protests. We've seen Israeli police-fired tear gas inside the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, to clear the building. We've seen people choking while trying to pray during their holy month, apparently in the name of order and stability.
It's time Israel stops it barbaric terrorism. What that country is doing is literal ethnic cleansing. Literal genocide. We need to speak up, we need to act, right now!
We need to save the Palestinians from this terrible brutality which they didn't ask for. Which they didn't deserve. We need to save the innocent Palestinian children from this horrifying trauma. The world must speak.