Palestine the moral test of the western world
Palestine, the Moral Test of the Western world!
In the year 285, Silvanus the Palestinian bishop of Gaza was given two choices, either to give up his faith or to die. Of course Silvanus knew that his power was little compared with that of the Roman Empire, the superpower of the time. But what can man do when he has to choose between freedom and slavery? History provides us with numerous examples of men who chose to die rather than live lives of servitude.
History recorded that Silvanus defied the Pax Romana peace. Bishop Sylvanus died as a martyr, but Christendom lived and the Roman occupation became history. This event took place in the days of antiquity, when the concepts of freedom and self-determination were not yet known and the charter of human rights has not come into existence, long before the Geneva Convention, intended to protect civilians in occupied countries and war zones, was born.
In that period, there was no modern media to report the atrocities committed against humanity, there was no United Nations; there was no International Red Cross, no Amnesty International and no human rights organizations to watch and to report.