Melbourne Road

Optimists and pessimists
die the exact same death,
but they live very different lives!

~ Shimon Peres
9th President of Israel
Born on: 2nd August 1923

Porte Ponderings:

Driving home from the trailer I stopped at the stop sign at the corner of Melbourne Road and Glendon Drive. Explaining to my grandson how dangerous this corner is and then across Glendon Drive, I stop on the edge of the road to take pictures of the Great White Egrets playing in the permanent puddles located there. It was the first time I had seen 10 Great White Egrets together in Ontario. My grandson thought they were swans, a more common sight as Arctic Swans migrate through our area, but it was the wrong time of year. Maybe they were just angels remembering all the lost lives at this corner.

Hitler evokes dread and horror throughout the world. Just saying the name evokes pictures of Nazi Concentration Camps and piles of bodies. A wonder of how the world stood by and watched the atrocitities occur.

Similarly history should remember Benjamin Netanyahu as the Israeli President who lead the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. According to Reuters, as of Jul 25, 2024 — Palestinian health authorities say Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 39000 people, mostly civilians, …

Those that have survived the bombing no longer have homes or even cities to return to. Now they face starvation. NO food. NO water. NO hospitals. NO infrastructure for their communities. NO HOPE.

“Around 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.1 million population – nine out of 10 people – are internally displaced, many multiple times. An estimated 43,580 are pregnant women. Each evacuation order upends lives, and in no place can survival be guaranteed.”

And the world stands by as the atrocities continue….