Is the War in Gaza a "Real" War?

By Fiorella Bafundo

In one interesting article from a Palestinian Website, Dr Mustafa Barghouthi, the General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), talks about the “unfair” war in Gaza, as one of the examples or the “genocide” (according to him) that “the world’s fifth-largest military industrial complex” (Israel) is carrying out against the Palestinian. He claims that the international community does not act and intervene because of the monopolization of the mass media by Israel, and he says that the media focuses on the “rare instances of Palestinian violence.”
He also argues that the international community is shown a “war” in Gaza by the Israel media, while at the same time is not a war but in his view (as Palestinian view) it is “an asymmetric massacre.” He compares what the Palestinians are doing fighting for their rights, freedom and democracy with the movements in the United States of America of the African Americans leaded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr in the 1950s and 1960s. “If Americans were allowed to watch the daily brutality committed against peaceful protesters, they would immediately connect our plight to that of the African American Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”