Aftermath...

Just read the article at CNN.

This doctor's children almost made it till the cease-fire

The IDF just doesn't care who gets in the way.

The situation just keeps getting worse...

Now Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of using white phosphorus, which impartially burns everyone in its' path and is generally considered inhumane. Beyond white phosphorus, Israel has become so out of control that they are unaware whether or not they are responsible for bombing a U.N. relief agency compound. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev claims "if it was Israel's fire, it was a grave mistake," and says "it could have been ours, it could have been Hamas', this is being investigated."

If any further proof was needed that Israel has become out of control and is simply attacking anyone and anything in the general area of Gaza, this is it.

Hamas continues to fire rockets, Israel continues to react in the worst way possible.

20 more rockets have been fired into Israel today from Gaza assumedly by Hamas. Israel continued indiscriminately bombing, shelling and shooting at whatever the fuck they please, burning several and killing one person in a U.N. school. It doesn't seem like this conflict will end anytime soon, especially with Israeli forces having no stated goal other than to stop rocket attacks which is becoming an obvious lost cause.

What will it take for blind support of Israel to stop?

How bad do the stories from the conflict between Israel and Palestine have to get before other countries and the U.N. step up and put a stop to what amounts to Israel's acts of terrorism? The latest story hasn't been substantiated as 100% fact yet but according to many eyewitnesses Israel ordered Palestinian civilians, (that's ordinary people who work and have families), to take shelter in a house which they then bombed, killing thirty of the people inside (from CNN). Perhaps the story isn't entirely accurate, but then there are also the incidents with the U.N. humanitarian workers. The IDF just doesn't care who they shoot anymore. Men, women, children, the ones who aren't killed are left injured or with nothing. The U.N. tried to instigate a truce, but that only lasted about 15 minutes. I would expect the small groups of terrorists to break a truce after 15 minutes, but I would hope that Israel might be able to last a bit longer. That's Wishful thinking I guess.

Even if I were to set these stories aside, what Israel is doing is wrong. Their over-aggressive attitude where they paint a target on every living person in Gaza is disgusting. The U.S. has to stop waiting and hoping something comes out of the meetings in Cairo. Hundreds of non-combatants are dying while the leaders talk. Israel claims that their offensive is intended to stop rocket fire into Israel, but after killing over eight hundred Palestinians, their actions haven't put a damper on rocket attacks. The only thing Israel's offensive is doing is leaving Gaza full of thousands of parentless and homeless children who now hate Israel for killing their parents and destroying all they hold dear. For every terrorist or enemy combatant that Israel kills, they are creating five or ten more.

Blind support of Israel needs to end and it needs to end now.