- You bomb civilian areas with White Phosphorus (Image)
- Your IDF ignores rulings by your own country’s Supreme Court on allowing journalists access to Gaza
- You break the ceasefire (of which you did not fulfill the terms of anyway) then blame Hamas
- You ban political parties in your own country because “they support terrorism” and do not recognise Israel as a democratic state (irony)
- In retaliation for 31 Israeli deaths in 2008, you have now massacred more than 1000 Palestinians, including more than 300 children
Israel, how far you have fallen from your ideal of a peaceful, just and secure homeland for Jewish people.
I am so angry at what has been done to the people living in Gaza and in Israel. Our generals claim we need our Trident nuclear weapons to “maintain influence” on the international stage, but what do we do with this influence? We remain silent. We save this “influence” for when we want to invade nation states under the pretence of “keeping our own people safe”.
Do you feel safer tonight as a result of the Iran-Iraq war? The Gulf War? The war in Afghanistan? The war in Iraq? The “war” between homemade rockets that rarely hit their targets and the precision guided missiles and illegally used white phosphorus weapons in Gaza? Between the civilian population, and the F16s, tanks and “boots on the ground”?
I don’t. We are planting the seeds of hatred. How would you feel if your entire family was killed in an air strike? Just ripped away in one cold, calculating “strike”? Now imagine how many people have felt this, experienced this, as a direct result of our interventions, our “moral crusades” in pursuit of “justice” (has anyone found Bin Laden yet, by the way?).
