A very interesting article on the Christian Science Monitor caught my eyes, Sara Roy in the article explains how Israel and not Hamas was the one that broke the truce, contrary to what Israel, the US and some Arabic countries would have us believe, a direct quote from Sara’s article:
“Since Nov. 4, when Israel effectively broke the truce with Hamas by attacking Gaza on a scale then unprecedented – a fact now buried with Gaza’s dead – the violence has escalated as Hamas responded by sending hundreds of rockets into Israel to kill Israeli civilians. It is reported that Israel’s strategy is to hit Hamas military targets, but explain that difference to my Palestinian friends who must bury their children.”
Sara goes on explaining the general picture of the situation in Gaza and Palestine in general:
It is one thing to take an individual’s land, his home, his livelihood, to denigrate his claims, or ignore his emotions. It is another to destroy his child. What happens to a society where renewal is denied and all possibility has ended?
Israel’s victories are pyrrhic and reveal the limits of Israeli power and our own limitations as a people: our inability to live a life without barriers. Are these the boundaries of our rebirth after the Holocaust?
You can find the full article here.