Maybe. But Israel has shown that it won’t be influenced to stop it’s inhuman crimes. The rest of the world obviously doesn’t care beyond crocodile tears. If they had , they would have taken action against Israel.
Egypt has locked their borders down. Valid reasons as they are ill equiped to handle the influx of refugees. But they aren’t even recieving many medical cases as well too. That’s pretty much aligning themselves (if not in words but actions) with the Israelis.
Saudis have kept their distance. Again , words flow but actions don’t follow.
Isn’t surviving more important than getting entire future generations destroyed for a piece of land ? What lives would the children of Palestinians live in the rubble that now is Gaza ?
I get that the Palestinians were robbed off their land.
I get that Israel is guilty of massive crimes (which may be equated to genocide)
But , is the pressure of the ROW even helping stop Israel one bit ?
Is it fair ? Nope. But life and war rarely are , they aren’t the first people to be pushed out of their lands.
It may well be that Israel would impose an apartheid state on the Palestinians, but they are atleast free to not be bombed and killed in the thousands per weeks.
Would the Palestinians like living in such an environment ? Ofcourse not. But ensuring the survival of their children has to be the paramount objective and the Palestinians in Gaza and to a lesser extent west bank have no future.
On aside
The pictures which were released were disturbing
not surprising but I expected that IDF would find that considering the barbarians that Hamas are.
Sorry if I’m being defeatist. But in what way is this different from the genocide by Srilankan Govt on the LTTE and the Tamil people living in North srilanka ? Srilanka didn’t face repurcussions on that. Why would Israel face it now from the world ?
Disagree. The World had abandoned Palestine and they hadn’t been in the equation for a long time. But, when was the last time a Palestine tragedy stayed alive for nine consecutive weeks! Maybe during the Second Intifada, and that was over 20 years ago.
It has taken a barbaric attack of this magnitude for Gaza to get back into the limelight which speaks as to how the issue has been marginalized as a simple regional dispute.
There was an UNRWA bigwig from Gaza being interviewed by Stephen Sackur on the BBC’s Hardtalk programme last week. He was adamant that their vetting was vigorous and that nobody with any political affiliation would be considered for employment.
Given that it is a UN bureaucracy, I can only presume he means a Palestinian political affiliation.
Regardless of whether his statements are true though, I think it is extraordinarily telling that he is facing those questions. The political conversation has seen a sea change in the past two weeks or so.
Also Hamas is the ruling govt in Gaza. It will be extremely tough to find people who aren’t in someway connected to Hamas. I mean it depends on the degrees of connection. Someone’s cousin might well be a Hamas member , you can’t screen those cases at all.
Palestinian resistance in the territory, armed and otherwise, has remained small-scale and unorganised as a result of the geographic and political fragmentation cultivated by the Israelis.
How long can it be sustainable even in West Bank? I have seen Palestinian fighters carrying arms during funeral processions at Jenin. I have seen freed Palestinian prisoners greeted with Hamas flags in out towns. What’s more, while Gaza is just 365skm, West Bank is nearly 6000 skm. True, there are draconian security measures; but as Gaza has shown, with enough determination and planning, such measures can be overrun.
Yeah , maybe I should have made it clearer , he was generalising about Palestinian political affiliations , but specifically he was answering the charge of Hamas infiltration.
These men aren’t only stripped off their clothes for examination, but they don’t receive them back. They are then loaded on vehicles, and brought somewhere else, in order to ‘interrogate’ them, according to the IDF.
