Parque Palestina! Nicaragua shows support for the Palestinians

As US and European Governments of major economies chooses to to spend billions of tax payers money on wars and facilitating the genocide in Gaza, Nicaragua builds a park to remember the thousands of women and children murdered by the Israeli military in Gaza. I visited “Parque Palestina” with the Cabeza family, the other evening. It was 8pm, children were playing and a park keeper there to keep an eye on them, as you once had in UK.

What brought the Nicaraguan support home to me and why people feel strongly about it, happened today. A patient I had seen four times was not improving as I had expected. I looked at her notes again. A 45 year old women ,there was no mention of any trauma, but I noticed a number of scars on her body, a big cut on her face as if she had gone through the windscreen in a road traffic accident. I asked about trauma? nothing she said, I asked about the scar on her leg, it was a cut with a knife, she said nonchalantly. What about the marks on your shoulder, how did that happen. Did not want to ask about the facial scar which had obviously benefited from corrective surgery. Now her eyes start to well up; It was a gunshot wound she tells me. Not for a moment considering where this was going, I gasped what happened? When I was eleven “The Contras” ( Terrorists funded by US President Ronald Regan) came to my parent’s farm: they murdered my Mother and Father my brothers and sisters and left me for dead. She began to cry, I began to cry and all I could think of doing was to hug her. I never talk about it she said.

It was Stalin who said 50,000 deaths is a statistic, one family is a tragedy. I suspect this is what Netanyahu is banking on, knowing the US got away with massive death counts, from carpet bombing, Viet Nam, Laos, Iraq and Afghanistan and dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, by making a claim that they were protecting the world from communism. Surly better to be a living communist than a dead capitalist. Its not a coincidence that countries who have experience Imperialist oppression, like Ireland, Nicaragua, South Africa