"See us as human beings"

After Losing Nearly 100 Relatives in Gaza, Palestinian American Doctor Refuses to Meet with Blinken

Dr. Tariq Haddad, a Palestinian American leader who refused to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week in protest of the Biden administration’s ongoing support of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. Instead, the doctor wrote a 12-page letter to Blinken admonishing the latter for his role in the deaths of nearly 100 of his family members. “I wanted him to see me and see Palestinians as human beings, not as some part of a political game,”

The media serves to distance us from the monstrous human tragedies perpetrated against innocent people around the world. We can be empathetic and sympathetic but the full impact only becomes real when it is delivered as live testimony. Here we see Dr. Haddad recount how almost a hundred members of his have been brutally slaughtered in Gaza.

I ask myself how can one person, one doctor, carry such a heavy burden of grief and loss?

I ask myself how can callous psychopathic politicians be allowed to impose this sort of burden and suffering on millions of destroyed lives and cultures. Who is this monster Antony Blinken, the heartless undertaker? How does he reconcile to Dr. Haddad that he and others are directly responsible for the slaughter of his extended family, so many who had lives to live.

It is not enough that my condolences go out to Dr. Haddad.

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