Supporters of Israel sometimes say that the people of Gaza deserve collective punishment because they support Hamas, which carried out terrorist attacks against Israel. Setting aside the fact that Hamas was not elected, Americans should be careful about claims that terrorism by a government justifies violent retaliation against a civilian population.
Don’t Feel Sorry for the Gazans
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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“Hamas won 2006 parliamentary elections elections and in 2007 violently seized control of the Gaza Strip from the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority.” The article states that Hamas got a little under half the votes, but that resulted in a majority of the seats. The PA was widely recognized as deeply corrupt and, while once revolutionary, far too willing to be helpful to the Israelis. So they were, and weren’t, elected.
https://apnews.com/article/hamas-gaza-palestinian-authority-israel-war-ed7018dbaae09b81513daf3bda38109a
Read “The Grayzone” https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/06/scandal-israeli-october-7-fabrications/
The New York Times and the rest of the establishment media use the reports of atrocities by ZAKA, who claim to be clean-up agents after terrorists attacks, but they are really an Israeli hasbara organisation whose reports “The Grayzone” has proven false. The New York Times say that ZAKA found the clean-up profoundly disturbing with the sights and smells from the horrible murders and rapes, but they mostly wrote their report without actually going to where Hamas attacked, and just about all their horror stories are pure fiction.
South Africa has submitted another case to the UN’s International Court of Justice accusing the US and UK of complicity in the genocide of Israel in Gaza (covered in it first case to the ICL) by giving essentially endless military hardware, intelligence and political cover to Israel.
Will the 81 million Biden voters end up as co-conspirators? How about the 150? million who paid taxes to the US government … a fraction of which went to fund the Israeli massacre in Gaza?
The Hamas and Likud fighters and their foreign supporters are going to keep going at it until a two-state solution is up and working. The bulk of our efforts should be to get the two-state solution up and working.
Lee–so that means all the illegal Israeli settlements in what is supposed to be Palestine are going to be removed? How, and by whom? That ain’t happening, and neither is “the two-state solution.” Israel is in the process of hanging itself, and there’s apparently nothing anybody can do about it except to let them. There’s a long history of western-imposed political entities attempting to take root in Palestine and eventually being swept away, though most of that happened back during the Crusades. Looks to me like it’s going to happen again, albeit in a very messy way.
The two-state solution is going to be as hard as hell, and there is no guarantee that it will succeed, in whole or in part. I’m pushing for it because it has better odds than the status quo of the past seventy-five-plus years. Every indication is that the hawks will keep at their fighting for another seventy-five-plus years. Meanwhile the doves should be pushing hard for a two-state solution.