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Demand a Cease-Fire in Gaza Yesterday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, "I am not talking to anybody
about a cease-fire right now. It's not even on the agenda." This was after
Hamas, the governing group in Gaza, called for resuming the mutual cease-fire
that had halted the last murderous attack by Israel on Gaza's densly populated
communities.
Of the more than
100 Gazans who have been killed over the last four days in this most recent
attack by Israel, more than half are reported to be women and children. Israel
itself acknowledges that a family of eight died when their Khan Yunis home was
deliberately destroyed in an airstrike. UN and human rights organizations have
condemned the previous attacks on Gaza as human rights violations and war crimes
after documenting that the large majority of casualties of previous Israeli
campaigns against the people of Gaza were non-combatants.
"Operation
Protective Edge”, the current full-scale attack on the people of Gaza, follows
massive policing actions in the West Bank aimed at disrupting the unity
government announced by Hamas and the Palistinian Liberation Organization,
during which hundreds were arrested and many killed, including children. In
response to this perceived violation of the previous cease-fire, rockets were
fired into Israeli territory by Palestinian militants, causing no casualties.
Using the pretext of these rocket launches, Israel launched "Operation
Protective Edge" which has closely conformed to its bloody predecessors:
“Operation Pillar of Defense” (2012) and “Operation Cast Lead”
(2008/9).
In both prior
instances, the US worked tirelessly to block UN criticism of Israel’s
disproportionate, indiscriminate and ultimately ineffectual military attacks. By
delaying UN Security Council efforts at a ceasefire in November of 2012, the
Obama administration actually facilitated additional civilian casualties. The
U.S. also unstintingly acted to fund replacement of the modern Israeli ordinance
expended in the massive military assault on the people of Gaza.
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