Monday, July 21, 2014

LETTER FROM GAZA BY A NORWEGIAN DOCTOR



(Mencari para pahlawan "Melayu Islam" untuk Palestin)




Ternyata sekali Ramadhan kali ini penuh dengan tragedi yang begitu memilukan.  Siapakah yang memiliki  kata-kata paling tepat untuk menggambarkan duka nestapa kita sebagai rakyat dalam mengharungi tragedi MH17 dan MH370 itu?   

Di tengah-tengah kemelut di atas,  seorang rawan memanjangkan emel di bawah ini.  Rasanya tak tercari kata-kata yang dapat menggambarkan kesedihan, kemarahan dan ‘ketidakterdayaan’ kita setiap kali mengamati penyembelihan-penyembelihan seperti ini.  


Namun begitu,  di celah-celah malapetaka ini, kita paling ingat kepada sekelompok manusia Melayu-Islam Malaysia yang sering sekali menerkam dan berebut tajuk-tajuk berita@'headlines'.  Kita teringat kepada mereka kerana katanya merekalah yang begitu beria-ia sekali mahu kelihatan sebagai pahlawan dan pejuang Melayu-Islam.  Kita teringat kepada para pahlawan Melayu Islam (yang bagi kita), tak pernah henti-hentinya membuat onar itu.  Kita teringatkan kepada peranan mereka kerana cukup yakin bahawa segala kudrat dan tenaga berharga yang terbuang begitu saja selama ini, sewajarnya ditumpukan buat membantu Ummah seperti di Palestine.  Dan segala tenaga dan buah fikiran itu bukannya untuk merunsingkan, menyusahkan dan memalukan Ummah.  


Makanya,  kita tujukan emel ini,  khusus kepada mereka:  


2.0  Ya, khusus buat para pemimpin yang maha gagah ‘Islam dan Melayu itu’, kita ada satu pemerhatian:
  

Seperti biasa, kita pun ulangi kerja-kerja yang rutin itu; berdemonstrasi, menghantar memorandum, bersajak, mengutip derma dan terus-terusan menyeru Kerajaan kita supaya lakukan sesuatu yang lebih konkrit.  Seperti biasa,  kita pasti dengar seruan-seruan supaya memboikot itu dan memboikot ini akan berulang lagi.
 
Percayalah, beberapa ketika yang akan datang, kita akan ulangi semua ini sekali lagi.  Kita ulangi episod di atas apabila orang-orang Palestin atau orang-orang Islam di merata-rata tempat di dunia ini,  disembelih tanpa belas kasihan.  Itulah kita sebagai Ummah.  Bukankah begitu?  Jadi alangkah bagusnya jika para pahlawan Melayu dan para pelindung Islam di Malaysia ini, tampil untuk memimpin Ummah; memimpin mereka mengatasi ketidakterdayaan Ummah melindungi diri daripada disembelih?


Atau para pahlawan ini tidak akan terkutik kerana tidak berminat dengan kesakitan Ummah seperti di Palestine itu?  Atau pun tuannya belum lagi mengeluarkan sebarang arahan?   Atau orang-orang ini lebih selesa bermusuhan dengan orang-orang bukan Islam dan bukan Melayu di negara kita saja?


Ini emel teman tersebut:


"Please circulate 


LETTER FROM GAZA BY A NORWEGIAN DOCTOR
Mads Gilbert 


Sunday, 20 July 2014 11:06

Mads Frederick Gilbert

Dearest friends,


The last night was extreme. The "ground invasion" of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying - all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent.

The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza's hospitals are working 12-24 hour shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads (without payment all in Shifa for the last 4 months), they care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. HUMANS!

Now, once more treated like animals by "the most moral army in the world" (sic!).

My respect for the wounded is endless, in their contained determination in the midst of pain, agony and shock; my admiration for the staff and volunteers is endless, my closeness to the Palestinian "sumud" gives me strength, although in glimpses I just want to scream, hold someone tight, cry, smell the skin and hair of the warm child, covered in blood, protect ourselves in an endless embrace - but we cannot afford that, nor can they.

Ashy grey faces - Oh NO! Not one more load of tens of maimed and bleeding, we still have lakes of blood on the floor in the ER, piles of dripping, blood-soaked bandages to clear out - oh - the cleaners, everywhere, swiftly shovelling the blood and discarded tissues, hair, clothes,cannulas - the leftovers from death - all taken away ... to be prepared again, to be repeated all over. More then 100 cases came to Shifa in the last 24 hrs. Enough for a large well trained hospital with everything, but here - almost nothing: no electricity, water, disposables, drugs, OR-tables, instruments, monitors - all rusted and as if taken from museums of yesterday's hospitals. But they do not complain, these heroes. They get on with it, like warriors, head on, enormously resolute.

And as I write these words to you, alone, on a bed, my tears flow, the warm but useless tears of pain and grief, of anger and fear. This is not happening!

An then, just now, the orchestra of the Israeli war-machine starts its gruesome symphony again, just now: salvos of artillery from the navy boats just down on the shores, the roaring F16, the sickening drones (Arabic 'Zennanis', the hummers), and the cluttering Apaches. So much made in and paid by the US.

Mr. Obama - do you have a heart?

I invite you - spend one night - just one night - with us in Shifa. Disguised as a cleaner, maybe.
I am convinced, 100%, it would change history.

Nobody with a heart AND power could ever walk away from a night in Shifa without being determined to end the slaughter of the Palestinian people.

But the heartless and merciless have done their calculations and planned another "dahyia" onslaught on Gaza.
The rivers of blood will keep running the coming night. I can hear they have tuned their instruments of death.

Please. Do what you can. This, THIS cannot continue.

Mads Gilbert MD PhD
Professor and Clinical Head
Clinic of Emergency Medicine
University Hospital of North Norway"





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