When you arrive at Denver airport you walk over a long curved bridge to reach immigration. There is haunting music playing and all along the walls are large portraits of Native American chiefs. The first time I encountered this display I was very moved, though I’ve been there so many times now that the effect has diminished.
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| Denver International Airport (Copyright: the above ) |
A friend of mine has just come back from a work trip to Colorado and he said in an email:
"One of the things I've been perhaps oversensitive to around Denver (and elsewhere in US), is e.g. the pictures of Chiefs on the arrivals wall, and the number of places that say some variant of 'This place used to belong to the indiginous population, but we massacred them and drove them out' (Rocky Mountain National Park leaflet says this, as well as the Univ Colorado lab in Boulder I visited.) I find that all a bit disturbingly close to what's going on in Palestine now, and doesn't bode well for the acceptable end to it."
And still our Prime Minister and so many other western leaders refuse to recognise and condemn the brutal war crimes and genocidal offensives of Israel, or take any actions to stop them.
It’s no wonder that some poor anguished souls, broken by compassion, feel so powerless in the face of such wilful complicity that they end up setting themselves alight in front of embassy buildings.
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