How will Israel's assault on Gaza pan out? Will it lead to the ethnic cleansing of vast portions of Gaza, a repetition of what happened when Israel came to be founded? Or will the world rouse itself to put an end to the suffering of a helpless people?
Here's a somewhat bleak view penned by a former UN official:
To date, only Bolivia has severed diplomatic relations with Israel to protest against the ongoing war crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians. Unless Egypt, Jordan, UAE and Morocco sever their diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv as their people demand; unless countries such as Turkey, South Africa and Brazil, which have denounced Israel’s war crimes, align their diplomacy with their own pronouncements; unless these countries emulate Bolivia’s principled diplomatic move and put pressure on their Western partners; unless Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Qatar, Azerbaijan and other large exporters of oil and natural gas use their economic leverage on Israel’s blinded backers, Gaza and its population will be destroyed, inch by inch, soul by soul. And no one would be able to say: “We didn’t know.”
The view from a South African who was witness to the end of the apartheid is more hopeful:
They will do well to learn from white South Africans who, after 300 years of minority rule, realised it was an impossible political project to continue to defend so violently, and still maintain any semblance of a moral high ground.There is a tipping point when even for the defenders of such a project, the faint question rings louder and louder in the collective conscience: how far is too far? There can be no going back to the promises of security based on what was before. There can be no going forward in peace if it means more and more blood of children and civilians haunting successive generations who will have to take responsibility for the actions unfolding before our eyes today.
The most astonishing thing about the ongong carnage is much of Western Europe (UK, France, Germany) is firmly with Israel with dissenting voices being heard from the smaller countries such as Belgium and Spain.
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Surprising to see you are supporting Palestine here. Don't you see this Israel merely defending against same philosophy which led to killing and exodus of Kashmiri Hindus? Or that Hamas is simply using population as collateral in their war? Is peaceful solution possible with enemy which seeks to establish Caliphate in the world under any excuse to fight?
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