‘Where is the world?’ Powerful UN speech by Rachel Goldberg, whose Son Hersh was Kidnapped by Hamas (VIDEO)

(VINnews)  — This powerful and heartfelt speech was delivered at the UN Tuesday by Rachel Goldberg, the mother of Hersh, a 23 year old who was captured by Hamas, after part of his arm was blown off by a grenade.

“The very cruelest of questions that each of us is asked every day, without intended malice is ‘How are you?’ Well picture your own mother and then picture her being told there are only two options. You are either dead or you had your arm blown off and you are kidnapped at gunpoint to Gaza, and no one knows where you are, or if you bled to death in that pickup truck 18 days ago. Or if you died yesterday. Or if you died 5 minutes ago. Picture your own mother, and those are (her) only two options when you ask ‘how are you’,” Mrs. Goldberg said.

“In an article I read, it so eloquently stated that when you only get outraged when one side’s babies are killed then your moral compass is broken and your humanity is broken,” the heartbroken mother said. “And therefore in your quiet moments alone, all of us everywhere on planet Earth need to really ask ourselves: Do I aspire to be human? Or am I swept up in the enticing and delicious world of hatred? This is not a phenomenon unique to Israel or Gaza, this is everywhere on our planet. I understand that hatred of the other, whoever we decide that other is, is seductive sensuous and most importantly it’s easy. Hatred is easy,” she said.

“I know that Israel is being cautious not just because Israel knows there are 200 hostages that were stolen into Gaza on Oct 7 but also because Israel knows that there are more than 2 million Palestinian civilians who are trapped in Gaza and this is why Israel gives warnings to civilians before it strikes in Gaza. But there were no warnings given to the women, the children, the babies and the music lovers before the attack on Oct. 7,” she said.

“In a competition of pain there is never a winner,” she added.