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A massacre unfolded in late December 2008 and continued through January 20, 2009 in the Gaza area of the Middle East. Israel, under the pretext of the Bush doctrine invaded the Palestinian territory of Gaza.

According to the United Nations, only a few Israeli casualties resulted while several thousand Palestinians were wounded and or killed. Astonishingly, the world watched in horror as innocent men, women and children were corralled - with no exit for cover or safety - while Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) blanketed civilian areas with bunker-busting bombs that crumbled buildings similar to the bombings of cities like Dresden or London during WWII. The storm of death in Gaza also obliterated homes, hospitals, schools, places of worship and even United Nations sponsored food- warehouses.

Furthermore, the United States of America did little to prevent the invasion and instead, held that Israel had the right to defend itself. During the month of December, President Bush also gave the green light to Israel for the use of chemical weapons - with full knowledge that those weapons would likely hurt innocent civilians. The world should also know, that we supplied those weapons to Israel.

Those who know history can remind those who don't know or care, that the world united in a League of Nations to stop future chemical weapons such as those used during WWI . Can the world today tolerate the use of chemicals as used in crematories in WWII or in Gaza today? Yet, it should be known that in Gaza, Israel consistently and deliberately used phosphorous bombs over Palestinian cities.  The world should also know, that these innocent looking fireworks were indeed chemical weapons. These phosphorous bombs exploded overhead and as the mist rained down on the civilian population, human flesh of the young and old blistered and burned. As the mist of those fluffy bombs was inhaled, lungs irritated and burned. For small children and weak-elderly, such chemical contact only proved fatal.

But where were you when these atrocities were happening? Should we really care? A good program on TV you say? Not my problem? They were the bad guys you say? We know of course, that President Bush has had a biblical connection, veiled with the fact that Israel and its US lobby placed him in office, and therefore, he had an agenda that allowed him to accept and be complicit with such atrocities. However, what was President-elect Obama's excuse in not forcefully calling for a halt to such atrocities? He was not yet president?

At one time, the world stood uncommitted and allowed Nazi Germany to exterminate 6 million human beings, until we decided to intervene, but it was too late for those 6 million.

In January 2009, the Bush Administration blocked a United Nations resolution forcing Israel to stop the bombings. In fact, Secretary Rice of the U.S. Department of State personally went before the world body and argued for a no cease fire. On the other hand, President Bush blamed Hamas for the civilian casualties caused by the collateral bombardment carried out by the Israeli forces. Still, President-elect Obama stood silent for the most part, and simply stated that there was only one president at a time..

However, long before President Bush's term came to a close, the order went out to the Pentagon to rid itself of unusable or no-longer- needed sophisticated armament, such as missile defense systems, tanks, bunker-busting bombs, and helicopter gun ships. Thus began the emptying of US warehouses of war material, which was shipped to, you got it, the state of Israel. Now Israel has enough weaponry, U.S. made, to kill more innocent civilians. For you and I however, if we were to supply a weapon to an individual who would commit a lethal act, you bet, you or I would be complicit in the crime, tried and convicted for the act.

But now, we have a newly elected president of our nation, President Barack Obama, who is the hope of our future and messiah for peace. So what does he have to say now about the atrocity of civilians with American weapons? Incidentally, Israel stopped the hostilities in Gaza immediately before our new president took the oath of office. Yet, the question remains; why did President-elect Obama stand silent during the Israeli massacre of innocent civilians in Gaza, and what will he do now that he is president?

Mr. President, take inventory and don't allow for neo-con Pentagon officials to run our foreign policy. You are in charge now. Thus, I must remind you that the audacity of silence is also complicity.

Joseph Chez