Israel Can’t Win This or Any Future Conflicts by Bombing Gaza
July 15th, 2014In other news: Hamas Was Founded by Mossad.
Via: Los Angeles Times:
The heavy bombardment of Gaza only deepens the Israelis’ problem rather than solving it. Over the last 47 years, Israel has systematically created one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world in the Gaza Strip. The more targets Israel destroys, the more frustration grows among the Gazans. The surviving relatives, neighbors and friends of those killed, and the rest of Gazan society, are more exasperated than ever by the Israeli blockade. Increased frustration within a besieged Gaza is what pushed things to the edge in the first place.
It is delusional to assume that when the current battle ends, both parties will return to their communities to resume normal lives. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has created two meanings of normality. The 40,000 Israeli reservists who were called up this time will, for the most part, go back to their jobs and homes when the fighting ends. But Gazans, 39% of whom are unemployed, will go back to their “normal” lives under the brutal conditions of the Gaza blockade and be at the mercy of Israel’s rules about what type and quantity of food and other basics are allowed into Gaza. The Palestinians in the West Bank will go back to their daily humiliation of roadblocks and expanding Israeli settlements at the expense of their livelihoods.
In fact, the two sides are more equal under the conditions of war than those of peace; although the Israelis are much stronger militarily and inflict more damage, both sides feel the effects of being under attack. But when the fighting ends, the Palestinians’ version of normality gives them every incentive to defy Israeli roadblocks and blockades. When the choice for Gazans is either accepting the blockade and life in what some have called the largest open-air prison in the world or fighting back, no sane person would consider anything other than the latter option.
To prevent another tragic war in the future, things must change. Palestinians mainly need two things: dignity and bread. Israel must end the occupation in general and the Gaza blockade in particular. The mistake of the 2008 and 2012 mediation efforts was that they produced cease-fires that allowed the Israelis to go back to business as usual — but left the Gaza blockade intact and perpetuated untenable conditions, which led to further and bloodier fighting.
Israel cannot win this or any future conflicts by bombing Gaza. Without addressing the root causes, even crippling Hamas — which was able to impose calm after 2012 — would not be a victory. Instead, it would merely set the stage for the next time, against whatever group or groups — perhaps even more radical than Hamas — that would inevitably emerge to take up its mantle.
Research Credit: almaverdad2
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m feeling that for the most part, the Netanyatu clan is reminiscent of Dick Cheney. All puffed up with ego, MAKE WAR, MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY (or in this case bombs).
Myself, I don’t know where the warmongers have the balls to bomb the people in Gaza. In my mind, the bombers are shooting at Gaza who are a people who have become sitting, starving ducks, watching these “people” from wherever the fluck they come from cut down their olive orchards for whatever reason. Or just raze their houses down because they feel like they own the place. Israel under Netanyahu has become a lawless place, and nobody on the world stage wants to touch this guy with a ten foot pole. Or even touch him at all. He trumps Dick Cheney by a magnitude.
I don’t know how, nor have I even seen am example in my short life of how you cleanse an evil being or force off of this planet earth. But friends, lets pray for one now.
68 minute video from Miko Peleg’s book tour a couple years ago that really cuts to the heart of what is going on. Don’t miss the Q&A session at the end.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TOaxAckFCuQ
*Miko Peled. Please fix. thanks.
Listening to Miko Peled now. Thanks steve holmes. And thank you Kevin for that link to “Hamas Was Founded by Mossad” — I can’t believe I missed that, but it was published admittedly before I was awake and searching for truth. And Eileen, agreed about Netanyahu. A whole nuther level of evil incarnate.