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Israel continues war on Gaza despite the U.N Cease-Fire Call
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated that the U.N decision 1860 about the situation in Gaza cannot be applied. Israeli Minister Tzipi Levni stated that Israel acts depending on its view of the situation and In the meanwhile it is not possible to stop the Israeli actions in Gaza. Hamas stated that the U.N decision does not serve the minimum that the Palestinians need to overcome what Israel is doing in Gaza. Hamas also stated that the discussions that took place about the U.N decision were not made with any of Hamas representative.
In the field Israel did not commit to the temporary cease-fire that it promised to hold everyday from 1 pm to 4 pm in order to give chance for the Palestinians to go out and get some of their basic needs. The air strikes continue on Gaza and more than twenty five Palestinians were killed today. In a statement that the U.N employees made today, Israel was accused of bombing a building after filling it with more than one hundred Palestinians that were captured by the Israeli army. The bombing resulted in killing more than thirty Palestinians. The Israeli army spokesman said that the army is investigating in the accident. Hamas kept on launching missiles on the south of Israel in which about thirty missiles were launched today.
Israel’s refusal to apply the U.N decision that starts with a demand to withdraw all the Israeli army forces from Gaza can be translated into an Israeli policy of ignoring the International community pressure as usual. Israel through its refusal admit that the war on Gaza in its fourteenth day did not result in weakening Hamas’s abilities as it was supposed to do, but indeed resulted in killing about eight hundred Palestinians that more than half of them are children and women.
Inside the Israeli community many voices have been heard in the last days to wake up that Israeli conscience that seems to be in comma. In Yadeot Ahronot newspaper an Israeli writer said that Israel will be shocked when the truth of what is going in Gaza will be watched on the Israeli media that tries to censorship this information.
In the Arab world the events are developing quickly; since the fifties of the 20th century, there have been no demonstrations and anger as today. The Arab peoples are creating a pressure on the Arab leadership that is standing without any ability to do something to stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
Although many suggestions were made recently to stop the war on Gaza, it seems impossible to achieve a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians; Israel seems to have more objects to achieve in Gaza although until this moment they it failed to achieve anything more than pushing more and more Arabs and Palestinians to believe in any choice except peace as a solution for the conflict.
In the field Israel did not commit to the temporary cease-fire that it promised to hold everyday from 1 pm to 4 pm in order to give chance for the Palestinians to go out and get some of their basic needs. The air strikes continue on Gaza and more than twenty five Palestinians were killed today. In a statement that the U.N employees made today, Israel was accused of bombing a building after filling it with more than one hundred Palestinians that were captured by the Israeli army. The bombing resulted in killing more than thirty Palestinians. The Israeli army spokesman said that the army is investigating in the accident. Hamas kept on launching missiles on the south of Israel in which about thirty missiles were launched today.
Israel’s refusal to apply the U.N decision that starts with a demand to withdraw all the Israeli army forces from Gaza can be translated into an Israeli policy of ignoring the International community pressure as usual. Israel through its refusal admit that the war on Gaza in its fourteenth day did not result in weakening Hamas’s abilities as it was supposed to do, but indeed resulted in killing about eight hundred Palestinians that more than half of them are children and women.
Inside the Israeli community many voices have been heard in the last days to wake up that Israeli conscience that seems to be in comma. In Yadeot Ahronot newspaper an Israeli writer said that Israel will be shocked when the truth of what is going in Gaza will be watched on the Israeli media that tries to censorship this information.
In the Arab world the events are developing quickly; since the fifties of the 20th century, there have been no demonstrations and anger as today. The Arab peoples are creating a pressure on the Arab leadership that is standing without any ability to do something to stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
Although many suggestions were made recently to stop the war on Gaza, it seems impossible to achieve a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians; Israel seems to have more objects to achieve in Gaza although until this moment they it failed to achieve anything more than pushing more and more Arabs and Palestinians to believe in any choice except peace as a solution for the conflict.< -->
Zaid….. two issues arises here.
1. Israel disregard to the international community, and
2. Its duty towards its citizen.
The latter is the reason given by the Israeli administration for this current indiscriminate onslaught on Gaza. And i have already touched on that in my earlier comments and dont believe that their objective could be met through military means.
Point number 1.
I have in response to an earlier article posted by BJW provided a list of UN resolution passed which has been ignored by the Israeli administration. Furthermore, the declaration by the Israeli government that “no one will determine when they sill stop this military action except themselves” is a gross disregard for world opinion as evidenced by the UN Resolution.
So what can we deduce by this?
My view is that Israel should be declared a rogue state by the UN and necessary steps taken in the long term to bring it in alignment with other civilised nations. One that respect human values and shows a willingness to be part of this peaceful community we all strive to achieve. I believe Internationalpressure should be brought to bear on the Israeli administration to either comply to UN Resolution or face the wrath of the International community. Remember, Iraq was invaded and destroyed by on the pretence that it had WMD without the consent of the UN. So there is a precedent to act pre emptively. Whether the International community has the will to do the same to Israel is another matter.
The irony of all this is that the same Organisation that legitimise the creation of Israel has been ignored by them. In summary, the UN, British and USA has created a monster state in the midst of the Arab people and one that no one can control which has been heavily militarised by USA and Europe.
What we are witnessing requires a re-think from the Arab world in their approach to Israel and its allies. But sadly, these puppet leaders dont act in the interest of their people.
Rasheed
I agree with you. I hope that the U.N will be fair enough to judge Israel according to its laws that were used to judge palestinians.
Ziad, Brave JW and Lirun,
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Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask?
So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another. Not bad for a night’s work in Gaza by the army that believes in “purity of arms”. But why should we be surprised?
Have we forgotten the 17,500 dead – almost all civilians, most of them children and women – in Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon; the 1,700 Palestinian civilian dead in the Sabra-Chatila massacre; the 1996 Qana massacre of 106 Lebanese civilian refugees, more than half of them children, at a UN base; the massacre of the Marwahin refugees who were ordered from their homes by the Israelis in 2006 then slaughtered by an Israeli helicopter crew; the 1,000 dead of that same 2006 bombardment and Lebanese invasion, almost all of them civilians?
What is amazing is that so many Western leaders, so many presidents and prime ministers and, I fear, so many editors and journalists, bought the old lie; that Israelis take such great care to avoid civilian casualties. “Israel makes every possible effort to avoid civilian casualties,” yet another Israeli ambassador said only hours before the Gaza massacre. And every president and prime minister who repeated this mendacity as an excuse to avoid a ceasefire has the blood of last night’s butchery on their hands. Had George Bush had the courage to demand an immediate ceasefire 48 hours earlier, those 40 civilians, the old and the women and children, would be alive.
What happened was not just shameful. It was a disgrace. Would war crime be too strong a description? For that is what we would call this atrocity if it had been committed by Hamas. So a war crime, I’m afraid, it was. After covering so many mass murders by the armies of the Middle East – by Syrian troops, by Iraqi troops, by Iranian troops, by Israeli troops – I suppose cynicism should be my reaction. But Israel claims it is fighting our war against “international terror”. The Israelis claim they are fighting in Gaza for us, for our Western ideals, for our security, for our safety, by our standards. And so we are also complicit in the savagery now being visited upon Gaza.
I’ve reported the excuses the Israeli army has served up in the past for these outrages. Since they may well be reheated in the coming hours, here are some of them: that the Palestinians killed their own refugees, that the Palestinians dug up bodies from cemeteries and planted them in the ruins, that ultimately the Palestinians are to blame because they supported an armed faction, or because armed Palestinians deliberately used the innocent refugees as cover.
The Sabra and Chatila massacre was committed by Israel’s right-wing Lebanese Phalangist allies while Israeli troops, as Israel’s own commission of inquiry revealed, watched for 48 hours and did nothing. When Israel was blamed, Menachem Begin’s government accused the world of a blood libel. After Israeli artillery had fired shells into the UN base at Qana in 1996, the Israelis claimed that Hizbollah gunmen were also sheltering in the base. It was a lie. The more than 1,000 dead of 2006 – a war started when Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers on the border – were simply dismissed as the responsibility of the Hizbollah. Israel claimed the bodies of children killed in a second Qana massacre may have been taken from a graveyard. It was another lie. The Marwahin massacre was never excused. The people of the village were ordered to flee, obeyed Israeli orders and were then attacked by an Israeli gunship. The refugees took their children and stood them around the truck in which they were travelling so that Israeli pilots would see they were innocents. Then the Israeli helicopter mowed them down at close range. Only two survived, by playing dead. Israel didn’t even apologise.
Twelve years earlier, another Israeli helicopter attacked an ambulance carrying civilians from a neighbouring village – again after they were ordered to leave by Israel – and killed three children and two women. The Israelis claimed that a Hizbollah fighter was in the ambulance. It was untrue. I covered all these atrocities, I investigated them all, talked to the survivors. So did a number of my colleagues. Our fate, of course, was that most slanderous of libels: we were accused of being anti-Semitic.
And I write the following without the slightest doubt: we’ll hear all these scandalous fabrications again. We’ll have the Hamas-to-blame lie – heaven knows, there is enough to blame them for without adding this crime – and we may well have the bodies-from-the-cemetery lie and we’ll almost certainly have the Hamas-was-in-the-UN-school lie and we will very definitely have the anti-Semitism lie. And our leaders will huff and puff and remind the world that Hamas originally broke the ceasefire. It didn’t. Israel broke it, first on 4 November when its bombardment killed six Palestinians in Gaza and again on 17 November when another bombardment killed four more Palestinians.
Yes, Israelis deserve security. Twenty Israelis dead in 10 years around Gaza is a grim figure indeed. But 600 Palestinians dead in just over a week, thousands over the years since 1948 – when the Israeli massacre at Deir Yassin helped to kick-start the flight of Palestinians from that part of Palestine that was to become Israel – is on a quite different scale. This recalls not a normal Middle East bloodletting but an atrocity on the level of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. And of course, when an Arab bestirs himself with unrestrained fury and takes out his incendiary, blind anger on the West, we will say it has nothing to do with us. Why do they hate us, we will ask? But let us not say we do not know the answer.
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