Human Wrongs Watch
By Ernest Corea* – IDN-InDepth News
Washington DC – Christmas has receded. Wishes and gifts have been exchanged, groaning boards have been emptied. Those who associate Christmas not only with “happy holidays” but with their faith have attended church services where prayers were said, sermons were delivered, and some of the most galvanizing choral music composed in the West, would have been heard.
Israeli soldier arresting 12 year-old Palestinian child at Nablus checkpoint | Credit: UN
On whichever continent this set of activities took place, there would at some point have been a direct or indirect reference – perhaps only by way of the words of some old familiar song – to that core hope of “on earth peace, good will toward men.”
Not for Palestine. “True peace can be built only on justice,” says Archbishop Desmond Tutu, commenting on the plight of Palestinians. What hopes of genuine peace, what expectations of goodwill, can be nurtured among those who survive in a particularly demeaning form of servitude?
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 