All the evidence suggests that the Israeli government is not going to lift the siege. It is also not going to enter into negotiations with the Palestinian leadership on a permanent peace agreement. The government is primarily preoccupied with taking over more Palestinian land and is in the middle of a battle of wills with the High Court over its right to not destroy the settlements illegally built on privately owned Palestinian land. This government transfers much larger budgets to the settlements than, let’s say, those Israeli towns on the Gaza border that suffered most during the war. And what are the people of Gaza supposed to do now? You wanted quiet? It’s quiet. Not a single rocket has been launched at us since the cease fire. No armed cell has burst out from the sea or through a terror tunnel. Did you want to build confidence? Here you are, confidence is being built. All while little girls continue to die and the siege continues to suffocate Gaza, and the economy is in the doldrums and there is no water and there are no homes and there’s no removing the blockade and no real rehabilitation program and no future and there is nothing – it’s quiet. #Gaza
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:37:37 +0000