Despite the promise of the end of military operations in Gaza, the Israeli military has had no success in stopping the casualties of this two week long debacle. Just today 20 additional rockets were fired into Israel from the Gaza strip, striking a kindergarten, but reporting no casualties. The more unfortunate, however light that term may be, incidents did occurs on the side of the philistines, where another 33 people were killed today alone, bringing the total death count to 898 and the total injuries to 3695 in Gaza. What strikes me as unacceptable is that 45 percent of these “causalities” were women and children. The article will go onto explain that the Israeli army has made efforts to ensure that civilian “causalities” are being kept to a minimum. They will even go as far as to call ahead to bombing location and warn civilians of an impending airstrike.
One has to question the Israeli government, however. I believe that it is perfectly reasonable to protect the citizens of your nation, but at what expense? Are the civilians of Israel just worth more than those of Gaza? Because, however horrific it may seem, it is quite apparent that those that the Israeli government are killing, in almost half the cases, are civilians.
The people of Gaza have been oppressed, persecuted, and deliberately exiled and now to add to the list they are, for all intents and purposes, being murdered by the government of Israel. It just is not just…
I’ll tell you what I want to see. I want to see an article that doesn’t beg patience for Israel, that does not make excuses or false justifications or throw around words like “casualty. We need to realize that each “casualty” has a life and they mean something to someone, somewhere. These PEOPLE have lives. And these LIVES are being brutally taken from them, not just from the military operation of the last week, but also from the past decades of history. Yes, I want to see an article that will call Israel out for their deliberate abuses of natural human rights. More than that, I want to see some sort of action taken by the international community to let not just Israel, but the entire world, know that violations on human rights will not be tolerated, the patience that Israel so brazenly requests will not be granted, and offenses will be met with swift, unrelenting action. Call me an idealist, but I believe in justice.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/11/israel.gaza/index.html
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