President Barack Obama has been a coward in regards to the plight of the Palestinian people. While he now calls for a cease-fire, Obama essentially gave Israel a green light to invade Gaza, claiming that every country has a right to defend itself. Theres no country on Earth that can be expected to live under a daily barrage of rockets, Obama said. He didnt say that there is no people on Earth that can be expected to live under occupation forever. This is nothing new for Obama. As Israeli bombs dropped on Gaza around the time of his first inauguration, killing at least 1,133 Palestinians, including 346 children, Obamas response was: If somebody shot rockets at my house where my two daughters were sleeping at night, Id do everything in my power to stop them. He didnt say what hed do if his two daughters were living under an occupation and blockade and were being shelled by one of the most powerful armies in the world. During its latest assault, Israel has bombed more than 70 sites inside Gaza, including five mosques and a soccer stadium. In the central Gaza town of Deir el-Balah, five people died and dozens were wounded when Israel bombed the Al-Aqsa hospital. The Palestinian death toll has now topped 600, mostly civilians. More than 100 of the dead are children. More than 3,700 Palestinians have been injured. Israel says it has lost 27 soldiers since the ground invasion began and two civilians. This is the very definition of disproportionate force. And the Israeli government has been appallingly callous about the civilian death toll it has been inflicting. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Hamas wants to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because somebody said, and I mean, its gruesome, but they use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. They want _ the more dead the better. The American political establishment should be denouncing Netanyahus ridiculously inhumane statement. Instead, it rallies to his support, as it ritually does. Secretary of State John Kerry said the leaders of Hamas need to recognize their own responsibility for the civilian deaths, with no denunciation of Israeli brutality or its consistent deployment of collective punishment, which is against the Geneva Conventions. For most of the world, the facts are clear. While the Hamas rocket attacks are inexcusable, the citizens of Gaza live in a virtual open-air prison, and now they face missile attacks and a brutal ground invasion. Obama and Kerry need to open their hearts to the Palestinian people, to hear their cries and to rethink the one-sided, Israel-can-do-no-wrong policy. -Collected (July 27, 2014)
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 02:19:50 +0000
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