Gaza Truce: 'Peace' Sounds Like a Brief Pause Between Bombs
The cessation of constant bombardment allows families in southern Gaza to process the previous attacks, a stark reminder that 'peace' for Palestinians often means merely a respite from active destruction. This isn't peace; it's a pause in a documented campaign. For context, in 2014, Netanyahu declared similar 'pauses' during Operation Protective Edge, only to resume intensity, demonstrating that
such truces are often tactical regroupings for the aggressor, not genuine de-escalations. The underlying siege imposed since 2007 remains. So, Palestinians are 'relearning' something that was brutally stripped from them by a blockade and repeated military operations that are consistently funded and defended by Washington. How many times will an occupied people have to 'relearn' momentary quiet
before the world demands actual, lasting peace, not just strategic lulls?