Steve Amsel

My understanding of a war is two opposing nations fighting each other to the death. I have never seen a war where it was not armies that were involved in such conflicts….. at least not until I moved to Israel.

Israel has created an enemy of a nation which it claims does not even exist. It has, for the past 61 years, occupied the land belonging to that nation. It has denied them every basic human right guaranteed them by the United Nations. It has ignored every condemnation against them by the World Body as well as a handful of other nations.

It has waged war against this nation….. a nation without an army. Who then are the targeted ones? The civilians….. innocent children and mothers. They justify these actions by claiming that every one of the victims is a potential terrorist. They have gotten away with these actions with the support of much of the western world. The Israelis have a network of support that no other nation enjoys. This network seems to have the world convinced that any criticism or condemnation of Israel is nothing but anti Semitism.

Now the question arises….. when a powerful nation wages a war against another nation that does not have a military aparatus, is it a war? From my understanding, the answer is no. In a case such as the conflict between Israel and Palestine, what could we call these actions? We have a number of choices that could be the possible answer…. genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder. All basically meaning the same thing.

The complicity of the West, even worse the support of the West, complicates the situation. The world literally stood by silently in the most recent attempt of the Israelis to destroy the civilian population of Palestine living in Gaza.

Now we see the Israeli soldiers involved in this action admitting that it was a game for them. We are talking about the elimination of a people, the brutal mass murder and torture of a people…. is this a game? Despite recent reports that have been coming out in the mass media, the governments of the world have been silent. Israel has them all convinced that they were ‘merely defending themselves’…… AGAINST WHAT????? Stones being thrown at tanks or armoured vehicles that should not be where they were? Quassam ‘rockets’ fired by militants that do virtually little or no damage?

It’s time for the world to wake up and see the reality. Israel wants to see a Palestinian State without inhabitants. They speak of a ‘One’ or Two’ State Solution, but their aim is a ‘Final Solution’….. This we saw elsewhere in history, with the same tactics and the same evil ideologies.

It’s time for the West to say ‘THAT’S IT… YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR THIS TIME’.

How long must we wait for that to happen? As the song above asks…

IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE!

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Source: http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/the-game-called-war/