[Peace-discuss] Even the progressives have bought into treating the victims as obsticles to peace.

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

Marc Ash of Truthout, who should know better, furnishes a prime example of
progressives who seek to shift the onus for generating peace on the victims
- in this case, Hamas.  It is interesting how he fails to suggest that those
Israelis who are resistant to any reform that would empower Palestinian
residents just happen to be the politicians and military officials who have
the power and authority to control policy, decisions, and actions of
Israel's government, military, and diplomats - not to mention its residents.
Maybe if the same pressure and effort to condemn Israel for its actions and
unwillingness to produce such reforms and to refrain from both being
provoked by the Palestinian actions and/or provoking the Palestinians, they
would greatly speed and aid efforts to cause the ceasing of Hamas' rocket
attacks. He neglects to note that the international community has been
extraordinarily ineffective in its attempts to reform Isreal; and when it
does anything to become effective, it is blocked by the US in one way or
another.  It would appear that the international community does not have the
balls to stand up to the US when it comes to Israel or anything else for
that matter.

 

Ash seems to be calling for Hamas to be the better people than Israelis,
more willing than Israelis to turn the other cheek, to be the first to
initiate the first step regardless of what Israel does or does not do, etc.
Why is it that he is not calling on Israel to do these things, to respond
with a more measured and proportionate force to the rocket attacks, which
are significantly more massive than the number of rockets being fired at
Israel, and to the threats to and deaths of Israelis, which are
disproportionately fewer than that of Palestinians.

 

 

Marc Ash | Hamas Should Stop

http://www.truthout.org/010609J

Marc Ash, Truthout: "With multiple diplomatic efforts to stop the violence
in Gaza urgently under way, Hamas could greatly speed and aid those efforts
by ceasing the rocket attacks on Israeli towns. The international community
has long sought reform of Israeli military and social policy towards
Palestinian lands. While it is true that some Israelis are resistant to any
reform that would empower Palestinian residents, such reform would become
inexorable absent deliberate provocation of Israel's military wrath."

 

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