GAZA; ILLUSIONS AND REALITY

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The United States seems to live on illusions…… illusions of hope, change and more that have no connection to the reality of life. Whitewashing the war crimes that were carried out in Gaza last year is a part of those illusions. Perhaps the logic is that if Israel is not quite guilty as charged, then those that aided Israel in those crimes might not be charged later on.

A year after the Israeli blitzkrieg on Gaza, a year after 1400 innocent civilians were brutally slaughtered, including over 450 children, the crimes can be ‘wiped out’ by easing the siege that still exists on Gaza. Brings to mind the definition of Chutzpah…..Perhaps in the imaginary world that the US leadership seems to be living in their plan would work. In the land of reality that Gazans live in, it won’t. Crimes were committed, nothing can erase them. With recent bombings on the Gaza Strip this past week we can see that Israel has no intention of changing their plans to eventually destroy everyone and everything that remains in Gaza today.

Easing, or better yet ending, the siege on Gaza will get people to look at Israel in a different light perhaps, but it will not erase what has happened thus far. Best for America’s leaders to pressure Israel by cutting funds rather than giving them false hopes that all will be OK. All WILL NOT be OK until Gaza is FREE, until the entire Occupied West Bank is FREE….. until Palestine is UNITED. Then, and only then might Israel be looked at in a different light, but definitely not the findings of the Report in question.

The United States has suggested to Israel that easing the Gaza blockade would help counter the fallout from the Goldstone report on alleged war crimes during Operation Cast Lead a year ago.

A main message of the U.S. officials was that the humanitarian situation in Gaza was directly linked to the ability of Israel’s critics to push the Goldstone report forward and the ability to block the report’s consequences.
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/gaza-illusions-and-reality/