Topical Rundown: Gaza
When covering a particularly volatile issue sometimes it is best to let bloggers speak for themselves.
I want to cry because Hamas wouldn’t even be in power in the first place if a two state solution had been reached years before when it was promised with the Oslo Accords. I want to cry for the Israeli people who have been affected by the rocket fire and Palestinian terrorism(I have cousins in Haifa who talk casually of bomb shelters just being a part of day to day life). I want to cry for the Palestinian people who are living in utter despair, who have been living in despair ever since Gaza was established. It’s a prison, not a homeland, a tiny, unlivable strip of land that should never have been permanent.
Does anyone else notice the irony in how Hamas, whose members fire unguided rockets into Israeli communities and wire children with suicide bombs can be so critical of the conduct of the Israeli Defense Forces?
Does Hamas create these problems by using ‘human shields’ to camouflage its base of operations? Is this simply a “war is hell” example that produces innocent victims? Again, it’s hard to judge much of this from afar. . .
Jack Hunter, the Southern Avenger:
. . . like it or not, Israel and the U.S. are seen as one-and-the-same in the Middle East, a fact that should make Americans uncomfortable given the never-ending instability in that powder keg of a region.
With the recent events in Gaza in mind, perhaps it’s time to add a new term to the lexicon of political cuss words when discussing American foreign policy — “interventionism.”