The Israeli Security Cabinet met today to unanimously reject a US-brokered ceasefire offer aimed at ending the war in the Gaza Strip. The plan, pushed by Secretary of State John Kerry, called for a week-long truce to allow talks to begin.
Hamas had been seeking a more permanent truce, but didn’t even have a chance to reject the week-long version before Israel had already spurned it, insisting it would get in the way of their ongoing destruction of “Hamas tunnels” throughout the strip.
Palestinian Justice Minister Saleem al-Saqqa filed a war crimes complaint against Israel in the International Criminal Court today, complaining about attacks against civilians and the excessive death toll in the current invasion, which has killed overwhelmingly civilians, not combatants.
While the toll inside Israel itself has been miniscule, the growing number of soldiers killed has some Israelis complaining about the lack of an endgame strategy. The explosion of public protests in the West Bank, and military efforts to violently suppress them, is only adding to the tensions.
These filth are intent on genocide, not peace, and always have been, yet the intimidated, purchased politicos that run our government will accept this with a smile on their face and welcome more. How do you like having your governments policies bought with Israel Lobby money? I think its time for pitchforks, frankly.
After his proposal was rejected, Kerry offered assurances that Israel's requested US arms replenishments would arrive on schedule.
All the government naming themselves "democracy/democrats" should understand the fact that Israel doesn't want peace nor they are even close in business of the notion. Peace for Israeli apartheid government managing a fascistic system have no meaning. Nor did for hitlerism regime while he was killing Jewish working man and women, so is the fact with Netanyahu regime, the different is that although hitler had a mental sickness, the present Israeli regime consist of sadistic figurine and other mentally sick personality as their foreign minister. Where is Bill Clinton, where is rest of Neo liberal democrats to condemn Israeli inhuman actions.
The "democratic" regimes from USG to Swedish to rest of Europe wanted to bring "peace" in Middle East when they started lying about Saddam Hussein and his WMD, these regimes are very good at lying about anything and everything they do, so why is it that US state department cannot come up with a truth,for once in their history, and what is it that non of these regimes want boycott Israel as they did in Iraq for 14 years before invading Iraq.
Of course Gazans are not allowed to leave the 139 sq m strip, and are not allowed to have bomb shelters.
If the issue is tunnels, then why isn't the IDF going after those like a laser? They claim Hamas fighters have 'emerged from tunnels into Israeli neighborhoods' etc.etc. (but miraculously no civilians have been killed or injured? Hamas must be having trouble recruiting tunnel fighters). So, if they know where these tunnels 'in Israeli neighborhoods' are, why not go in there with troops and see where they lead? Better yet, pump them full of CS or some agent to clear them and then pump colored smoke into them to find where the entrance is on the Gazan side. Once you know where they are and how extensive they are it's a relatively simple matter to bring them down- no air strikes, no artillery, and no naval gunfire needed.
If the issue was the tunnels………but it really isn't. It's about satisfying the blood lust of the right, far-right warmongers in the Israeli government and the illegal settlements.
Is ra hell IS THE DEVIL INCARNATE AND AMERIKA is it's DEMON HELPER.
Kerry obviously doesn't understand his position. It is to take orders and accept demands, not make them.
It's great to be losing "friends" over my support of The Palestinian People. When I hear the "Israel can do no wrong" memes, and mantras over and over from people I thought would know better than to blindly "stand" with Israel, I realize that I have never felt so right about something before in my life. A few of them are '"Christians" and show no mercy toward the people in Gaza. I can thrive without such 'friends."