I have highlighted the on going crisis in Gaza on several occasions recently. Still the bombing and the killings go on. The Ministry of Health in Gaza today said 1,010 people have died in the conflict which started 19 days ago. More than 300 of the dead are said to be children and about 4,700 people in Gaza have been injured. Jim Gordon sums up some of my feelings far better than I could ever express them.
Living Wittily has highlighted a number of major challenges which immediately face President-elect Obama, not least the appalling breaches of human rights which continue in Guantanamo Bay.
He writes,
As a Christian, a citizen of the UK, a beneficiary of a democratic way of life which for all its shortcomings confers certain rights and privileges, and as a representative of "the West", I look on Gunatanamo with deep shame, and a deep felt urge to repentance.
The BBC website today contains a very disturbing article in which the woman charged with convening the military commissions at the Camp speaks out about the torture which took place during the Interviews of detainees.
She said: "If we tolerate this and allow it, then how can we object when our servicemen and women, or others in foreign service, are captured and subjected to the same techniques? "How can we complain? Where is our moral authority to complain? Well, we may have lost it."
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