Friday, January 9, 2009

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.

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