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West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre
Cook, Jonathan
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/wests-failure-massacre/Date Written: 2018-05-16 Publisher: Mondoweiss Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX22298 Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future. Abstract: - Excerpt: The contrasting images coming out of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories on Monday could not have been starker – or more disturbing. Faced with protests at the perimeter fence in Gaza, Israeli snipers killed dozens of unarmed Palestinians and wounded more than 2,000 others, including children, women, journalists and paramedics, in a hail of live fire. Amnesty, the international human rights organisation, rightly called it a "horror show". Such horror is now so routine that TV anchors could only headline the news as the worst day of bloodshed in Gazain four years, when Israel massacred civilians in its last major military assault. Already gasping from the chokehold of Israel's decade-long blockade of Gaza, local hospitals are now collapsing from the weight of casualties. A few kilometres away, meanwhile, Israelis were partying. So-called "liberal" Tel Aviv was busy "chicken dancing" with Netta, who had just won the Eurovision Song Contest and gave a free open-air performance to celebrate. And in Jerusalem, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was glad-handing a bevy of US officials, including Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and policy adviser. They were there to beam for the cameras as the US opened its embassy in the occupied city. Subject Headings |