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Moreover, after the war, we would have sought to see that such acts never happen again under any regime.
Now, it is January 2009!
What the hell are we Americans going to put up with before we use suasion to get Israel, the state, and others in the Middle East to stop the damnable war crimes??????
. . . . and I don’t want blindly unfair and unjust state of Israel supporters or worshippers falling back on those weak words, “Oh, they shot at us first!!”
FINAL NOTES
According to Robert Pastor, who is a senior adviser to the Carter Center and a professor at American University who met with exiled Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus on Dec. 14, along with former President Jimmy Carter: “[B]oth sides violated the key elements of the ceasefire. The rockets never absolutely completely stopped, even though they went from about 250 a month to fewer than three a month. From the standpoint of Israel , that may not have been good enough. On the other hand, from the principal concern of Hamas, which was to open the barriers, Israel really never tried very hard to open them. The numbers of trucks, on average, that went in increased from 100 to 200, but the amount that was supposed to go in was roughly 750 a day. Israel never came close to that. I think, as I said, to make the ceasefire work, both sides need to comply.”
Most importantly, thousands of experts in negotiations around the globe who have observed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over these past months agree with Pastor, who reports, “I think, with regard to the question of whether Israel had an alternative than to invade in Gaza, I think the answer is obvious, that it did, that an effective ceasefire, full compliance with the agreement, would have stopped the rockets without the terrible loss of life that occurred.”
If you don’t believe that many experts concur that Israel ’s latest war a losing choice was, check out some of these articles and discussions:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/23/noam_chomsky_obamas_stance_on_gaza
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5783
http://www.truthout.org/010809R
http://33-minutes.com/tag/israel/
http://www.theaugeanstables.com/category/arab-israeli-conflict/
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/30/ltm.02.html
http://www.ssrc.org/features/questions/ehrlich/
http://pulsemedia.org/2009/01/15/by-war-of-deception-ye-shall-make-war/
