Israel continues killing Palestinians

ISRAELI military operations continued with greater ferocity and virulence yesterday -- the 19th day of the Jewish state's assault on Gaza strip. Civilian casualties among the Palestinians have risen sharply to over 900 in a rather one-sided use of sophisticated war machines by Tel Aviv against the people of Gaza.
The only argument that Israel has advanced so far to justify its military operations is that it had to stop the rocket attacks launched by Hamas. But the Israeli response to sporadic rocket attacks by a desperate Hamas has been far from proportionate, to say the least. Yet, Tel Aviv is not showing the slightest qualms for the dead Palestinians that include a large number of children and women. The Jewish state, having a record of killing Palestinians at will in the past, is convinced that it can stop hostilities in the region by liquidating Hamas. But if history is anything to go by, the Israeli atrocities will only harden the Palestinian resolve to continue the fight against the oppressors. The world is unlikely to be a safer place when military might is being used by a state to ruthlessly suppress a beleaguered people.
It is not difficult to say how we should react to Israel's friends' meaningless expressions of concern for the Palestinians now dying in hundreds every day. Our feeling of outrage is only deepened. It is highly regrettable that the international community is doing absolutely nothing to stop the state terrorism unleashed by Israel. Even the greatest exponent of the war on terror -- US President Bush -- has seen only Israeli's right to defend itself in its genocidal scheme! A EU commissioner was only less kind to Israel when he said that the Jewish state was not respecting human rights laws. What an expectation from a terrorist state out to obliterate the people whose land it occupied forcibly! It is clear that the Western leaders are still not moved by the deaths in Gaza; perhaps they will never be.
The UN, for its part, is once again demonstrating its helplessness vis-à-vis the lone superpower in the world today. Thanks to the shockingly inhuman US stance on the Palestine issue, Israel knows very well that it can get away with anything.
The world leaders should see something beyond their own interests in the Palestine issue. After all, they are the ones who often talk about human rights, democracy, freedom and so on.