Saturday, September 09, 2006

One is Greater than Many

Last month a New Zealand-born journalist Olaf Wiig was caputured an held as a hostage in Gaza. This event was the first event on our television news every evening, with life hook-ups to commentators in Gaza. Diplomats and politicians were hard at work lobbying for their freedom.

A million people are imprisoned and the whole world is strangely silent. The news media go back to human interest stories and the politicians go back to squabbling amongst themselves.


No one is interested. Have we got our priorities right?

Here are a couple of interesting articles.
Gaza's Darkness
Gaza is a Jail

If it is a war against terror, why did they bomb the electricity plant and bulldoze the olive grove?

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