Cowardice over Gaza onslaught

"Conquerors of every age attempted to lessen the character of the conquered that they might in a plausible appearance of justice impose their yoke upon them" — John O’Donovan, May 19, 1836.

The displacement of over 200,000 civilians into UN buildings and over 100,000 in Gaza administration facilities like schools, in a place such as Gaza with 1.7m-plus, with nearly 50% 17 years and younger, in an area of 25 miles by between seven and five miles wide is a very grave offence. To have UN officials seven times given GPS coordinates for a UN shelter, including the night on which the Israelis struck the premises with shells, killing over 20, wounding over 120, with 3,300 sheltering there, directed there for shelter by the Israeli military is indicative of Israeli grave misjudgement.

The fact they are not been sanctioned by allies shows the regard absent towards Arabs in centres of power and in the West. Eighty percent of those killed in Gaza by Israeli military are civilians, 50 entire families have been wiped out, so far over 200 young children are dead from shelling by Israeli military out of 1,300 so far killed... This is horrific violence to a people. These are crimes against humanity. The persistent brutality by Israel shows disregard of life in occupied territories.