If the Israeli government responds to this moment like George W Bush, it will soon follow the route of his government from global sympathy to global outrage
‘The US government lost the world’s sympathy, and the moral high ground, when its response to 9/11 degenerated into a highly abusive war in Iraq.’‘The US government lost the world’s sympathy, and the moral high ground, when its response to 9/11 degenerated into a highly abusive war in Iraq.
The Israeli government already seems to be flouting those rules. The declared siege of Gaza, blocking food, water, and electricity, violates theto allow humanitarian aid to civilians in need, as the people of Gaza certainly are as they suffer massive Israeli bombardment. In the first day of those airstrikes, the Israeli military targeted.
There is also something cruel and otherworldly about the Israeli government’s warning to the people of Gaza to flee. Where? From one densely populated Gaza neighborhood to another as they are pummeled in turn? To Egypt, which has helped Israel reinforce the blockade and has shown no inclination to welcome the 2.2 million residents of the territory? After the warning, the Israeli militarythe crossing to Egypt.
Civilian deaths in Gaza are climbing rapidly and will undoubtedly soon far surpass the toll from Hamas’s initial attacks. Things will only get worse if Israel proceeds as expected with a. The government will try to exculpate itself by saying that it is not deliberately killing civilians, as President Biden stressed in hison Tuesday.
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