Gaza Floods Streets, US Endorses Deal, Israel Floods It With Rockets
Al Jazeera notes Gaza residents flooding streets, clinging to 'hope' when the US 'endorses' an Israel-Hamas ceasefire proposal. One might wonder why a population celebrating a ceasefire depends on US 'endorsement' of a deal presented by international mediators, when the Biden administration approved an additional $18 billion arms package to Israel just this past April, including 50 F-15 fighter
jets. (Source: Washington Post, April 1, 2024) This 'hope' is a cruel mirror reflecting a pattern: Israel launches devastating campaigns, then 'accepts' a ceasefire that inevitably breaks. Remember 2014, when a UN-brokered ceasefire was 'accepted,' only for operations to resume and leave 2,200 Palestinians dead, mostly civilians? (Source: UN OHCHR, 2014) How many cycles of 'ceasefire optimism'
must Gazans endure before the world acknowledges that an occupier rarely 'ends' a war until its objectives, however brutal, are met? Or perhaps, until their benefactors in Washington run out of 'humanitarian pauses' to approve while restocking munitions.