By Liam Bailey
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Dandelion Salad
The Bailey Mail
March 15, 2008
2008-03-14 In my last article on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I said that even if Hamas stopped firing rockets and Israel kept its word and stopped attacking Gaza, then before too long Israel would launch an arrest raid in the west bank and the calm would be destroyed. And that is almost exactly what has happened:The almost week long lull in violence, which even saw restraint by Israel despite the odd rocket has been ended by Israeli air-strikes, in response to rockets fired from Gaza by Islamic Jihad, in response to an Israeli rocket attack in the West Bank that killed 4 wanted militants, and the vicious cycle of violence begins all over again.
Recent events also back up the main claim of my last article, that Israel doesn’t want peace; Israel’s attack the started the latest wave of violence came just hours after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh announced their terms for a ceasefire: an end to Israeli attacks in the West Bank and Gaza, the reopening of border-crossings, an end to the Gaza siege, and a say in the control of their borders.
The last one would have never been agreed to by Israel, but in order to derail hopes of a truce they had to provoke fresh rocket attacks without attracting international condemnation, by international condemnation I mean U.S. condemnation, and how can the US condemn anyone for launching air-strikes against wanted “terrorists” when it has launched several in Somalia alone since 2006.
It’s worked like a charm, the cycle has begun again, and any talk of a truce has been pushed well into the sidelines.
Former deputy defence minister Ephraim Sneh said there could be no solution to the conflict “without the military wiping out Hamas”.
Israel will never wipe out Hamas, because every brutal attempt to do so, in which they kill far more civilians that Hamas militants only serves to do Hamas’ recruiting for them and ensure there are generation after generation of even more fanatical militants.
In a statement Thursday 13 Top UN Humanitarian Official John Holmes heavily criticized Israel’s sealing off the Gaza strip: “It’s not stopping the rockets, it’s not producing the desired political effects”, he said, adding that Israel’s belief that the blockade would generate resentment for Hamas was not “well founded”.
It’s all urinating into the wind though, with a few shining exceptions, the UN has been the most useless world body in the history of man. How can it hope to achieve anything when the world’s main powers, corrupted so by said power and caring about little more than furthering their own agendas can stop it from doing any good unless it coincides with what is good for them?
The UN will only do any good in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if it obtains US support. This would at the same time mean that the US would have stopped unequivocally supporting Israel, which would then mean the conflict would have started costing Israel something that it cared about (money, and overall security) and Israel would suddenly adopt a more welcoming attitude to finding peace — until then the cycle will continue.
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No Incentives for Israel to Find Peace By Liam Bailey
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