From all the Bla Bla we've been hearing and reading concerning the real cause of the massacre still ongoing till this very moment in Gaza few essential points seem to be missing.
Israel gradually blocked the Gaza strip with the support of the United States and the European union and the aid of Egypt since Hamas won the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in January 2006. Fuel, electricity, imports, exports and the movement of people in and out of the Strip have been slowly choked off, leading to life-threatening problems of sanitation, health, water supply and transportation.
The blockade has subjected many to unemployment, penury and malnutrition. This amounts to the collective punishment with the tacit support of the United States of a civilian population for exercising its democratic rights.
In June 2008 Hamas and Israel agreed to a 6 month cease-fire based on lifting the blockade and a cessation of rocket fire. This accord led to a reduction in rockets fired from Gaza from hundreds in May and June to a total of less than 20 in the subsequent four months (according to Israeli government figures) but the blockade continued and the Gazans kept on suffering, inspite of this the cease-fire broke down when Israeli forces launched major air and ground attacks in early November; six Hamas operatives were reported killed.
This war on the people of Gaza isn’t really about rockets. Nor is it about “restoring Israel’s deterrence,” as the Israeli press might have you believe. Far more revealing are the words of Moshe Yaalon, the Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff, in 2002:
“The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people.”
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