Horowitz: How can I celebrate a Jewish liberation story while Gaza is starving?

Check out this amazing letter from the Israeli peace activist Nurit Peled-Elhanan. She sent it to the recipients of the Sakharov Prize. Peled-Elhanan helped start the organization the Bereaved Families Forum, a network of Palestinian and Israeli parents who have lost children due to the conflict, after her13-year-old daughter Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber in 1997. Jewish Peace News sent this out today. Powerful stuff:

The pogrom being carried out by the thugs of the Occupation army against the residents of the Gaza Strip is known to everyone and yet the world is impotent as always. I call upon all of us, who have won a privilege as well as duty by receiving the Sakharov prize, to arise and go to Gaza and any other city of oppression and slaughter; to defy all blockades and high walls and not to give up until all barriers are broken.

When Jewish poet Bialik wrote after the Pogrom against the Jews in Kishiniev, "Satan has not yet created Vengeance for the blood of a small child," It did not occur to him that the child would be a Palestinian child from Gaza and his slaughterers would be Jewish soldiers.

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