GAZA
Strip Our Nursing Mothers
Well we are well into amplifying world breastfeeding week with the theme of the year to prioritizing nursing mothers. Perhaps it explains the algorithms and gentle shift in my news feed to take me to such poignant places and difficult images.
The global citizen notes that war, famine and the deliberate and even unintended impact of starvation is a feature of genocide.
While I can’t dismiss my excuses toward being overly sensitive; I am a midwife, a mother, a grandmother. My heart aches. I cook but am having difficulty eating and looking for how best to nurture mind, body and soul. I am equally & deeply struck by acts of random kindness and the cruelty it takes to focus your animus on mothers and babies. Murder their fathers as I celebrate my dad’s birthday today. I have known such love, and abundance, and prosperity. Is there truly nothing I can do?
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Does silence truly confer complicity. Can’t remember now exactly which moment lionized sister alum feminist author said that your silence will not protect you. It matters less that it isn’t always true. Each of us must decide when to speak up and when we say nothing, it is sometimes because there are no words.
*This is starvation of children by design,” said Ahmad Alhendawi, Save the Children’s regional director for the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North Africa. On Monday, the group said that 40 per cent of the pregnant and breastfeeding women visiting its Gaza clinics were malnourished. “
Ask the women what they want. Be still and listen. Surround them with loving support and don’t ask them to choose between…. when they have no choice, no sense of agency as there is none.
Each of us knows what we must do and who we must be. Takes time and courage even when it seems hopeless. “One person can make a difference and everyone should try.” sounds almost very presidential.
NOTES to CLICK on if Curious and wonder…
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/129734-one-person-can-make-a-difference-and-everyone-should-try
