Propaganda will already have convinced many of you that the situation is simple: Israel, out of the goodness of its heart, tried to talk to crazy Hamas about stopping the hostilities. Hamas, being Hamas, says no. Israel therefore has no choice but to bomb more hospitals and schools and ports and parks and civilian homes. Is that an accurate description of whats going on? The Electronic Intifadas Ali Abunimah thinks otherwise. ---- It’s the siege, stupid. Talk to virtually anyone in Gaza and they will tell you the same. The siege is living death, slowly crushing the life out of Gaza. It has to end. This is a main reason why Hamas did not accede to the attempt by Israel, through its ally the Egyptian dictatorship, to impose a unilateral “ceasefire” about which Hamas says it was never even consulted, hearing about the initiative only through the media. Al Qassam, the military wing of Hamas, said the initiative “is not worth the ink that wrote it” and “promised the Palestinian people that this blood and sacrifices will not be wasted by whoever was in this world.”
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:00:19 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015