If the world will not defend the Palestinians against Israel, they have the right to defend themselves. In the last few days more than a thousand Palestinians have been killed or injured - more than half of them women or children. From green-lighting military operations in Gaza to giving unstinted diplomatic support in the United Nations, the US government is wholly complicit in Israel's latest assault on Gaza.
Israel’s assault on the besieged Gaza Strip has resulted in the death of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, and the toll is likely to rise. Many have been injured as well. Its only a few days ago that a 13 year old Palestinian boy was killed in an Israeli military incursion into Gaza. Still a few days before, a mentally ill Palestinian was killed and another seriously wounded due to Israeli fire. Is there any reason why those couldn't be the starting point of the present 'cycle of violence?' Anyone who would check the facts will soon realize Israel started these attacks.
It’s the American money that is being used to pay for all these atrocities. As Glenn Greenwald wrote in The Guardian, “Israeli aggression is possible only because of direct, affirmative, unstinting US diplomatic, financial and military support for Israel and everything it does". It’s no surprise that those outraged at the latest Israeli assault on Gaza will blame the US for its latest crime on humanity. The western stand has given political cover to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its leadership to continue their attacks. European governments, in contrast to their peoples whose majority support Palestinian rights, have demonstrated their double standards and hypocrisy yet again. The human rights that Europe claims to defend all over the world are denied to the Palestinian people right at your door-step. Shame on you!
Israel’s assault on the besieged Gaza Strip has resulted in the death of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, and the toll is likely to rise. Many have been injured as well. Its only a few days ago that a 13 year old Palestinian boy was killed in an Israeli military incursion into Gaza. Still a few days before, a mentally ill Palestinian was killed and another seriously wounded due to Israeli fire. Is there any reason why those couldn't be the starting point of the present 'cycle of violence?' Anyone who would check the facts will soon realize Israel started these attacks.
It’s the American money that is being used to pay for all these atrocities. As Glenn Greenwald wrote in The Guardian, “Israeli aggression is possible only because of direct, affirmative, unstinting US diplomatic, financial and military support for Israel and everything it does". It’s no surprise that those outraged at the latest Israeli assault on Gaza will blame the US for its latest crime on humanity. The western stand has given political cover to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its leadership to continue their attacks. European governments, in contrast to their peoples whose majority support Palestinian rights, have demonstrated their double standards and hypocrisy yet again. The human rights that Europe claims to defend all over the world are denied to the Palestinian people right at your door-step. Shame on you!
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