Kind of sums it all up…
Don’t it?
More than 1,300 Gazans died in the three-week military action, which Israel launched after Gaza’s Hamas government failed to stop militants firing rockets into southern Israel. The rocket attacks have killed 20 people in the past eight years. More than half of the Palestinian dead were said to be civilians and up to 5,000 people were injured. On the Israeli side 13 people died, including four soldiers hit by friendly fire and three civilians killed by rocket fire, and 50 were hurt.
This whole situation has nothing to do with religion, the legitimacy of the Hamas government, or Israel’s right to exist. It has to do with those four little treaties signed in Geneva that people have been all too willing to ignore over the past 8 years. It has to do with remembering that there is nothing in this world that can grant the authority to commit war crimes.
And yet, all we seem to be able to talk about is whether this appeal was too biased to be shown on the BBC.
Tags: DEC Gaza Appeal, Gaza Conflict, Geneva Conventions, Israel, Palestine, Times Online, War Crimes
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January 27, 2009 at 9:55 am
I think there should be an appeal for Afghanis [sic]; 10,000 civilians dead for the cost of 130+ Uk soldiers. Kind of sums it up doesn’t it, provided you ignore other key facts.
January 27, 2009 at 10:01 am
I think you were trying to be fatuous, but I would support an appeal for the humanitarian effects of the War on Terror. Especially since the Coalition allows international aid workers direct access to these areas.
Please, Michael, tell us about these “key facts” I’m ignoring.