Title: You Cannot Support Gaza After Watching This... Source:
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By MARTIN H. GLYNN (Former Governor of the State of N. Y.)
From across the sea six millIon men and women call to us for help, and eight hundred thousand little children cry for bread.
These children, these men and women are our fellow-members of the human family, with the same claim on life as we, the same susceptibility to the winter's cold, the same propensity to death before the fangs of hunger. Within them reside the Illimitable possibilities for the ad- vancement of the human race as naturally would reside In six million human beings. We mop not he their Keepers but we ought to be their helpers.
In the face of death, in the throes of starvation there Is no place for mental distinctions of creed, no place for physical differentiations of race. In this catas- trophe, when six million human beings are being whirled toward the grave by a cruel and relentless fate, only the most idealistic promptings of human nature should away the heart and move the hand.
Six million men and women are dying from lack of the necessaries of life; eight hundred thousand children cry for bread. And this fate ia upon them through no fault of their own, through no transgres- sion of the laws of God or man; but through the awful tyranny of war and a bigoted lust for Jewish blood.
In this threatened holocaust of human life, forgotten are the niceties of philoso- phical distinction, forgotten are the dif- ferences of historical Interpretation; and the determination to help the helpless, to shelter the homeless, to clothe the naked and to feed the hungry becomes a religion at whose altar men of every race can worship and women of every creed can kneel. In this calamity the temporali- ties of man's fashionings fall away before the eternal verities of life, and we awaken to the fact that from the hands of one God we all come and before the tribunal of one God we all must stand on the day of final reckoning. And when that reck- oning comes mere profession of lips will not weigh a pennyweight; but deeds, mere Intangible deeds, deeds that dry the tear of sorrow and allay the pain of anguish, deeds that with the spirit of the Good Samaritan pour oil and wine in wounds and find sustenance and shelter for the suffering and the stricken, will outweigh all the stars in the heavens, all the waters in the seas, all the rocks and metals in all the celestlan globes that revolve In the firmament around us..."