Netanyahu Clarifies: 'Ceasefire' Means Israel Stops, Palestinians Don't Stop Dying
The story: Israeli forces 'breach Gaza ceasefire,' killing and wounding Palestinians while Netanyahu 'threatens Hamas.' The unsaid context? These aren't breaches; they’re consistent operational procedures. Netanyahu's 'threats' are merely restatements of a decades-long policy, dusted off for each new cycle of violence. Similar 'ceasefire violations' punctuated the lead-ups to attacks in 2008,
2012, 2014, and 2021, each time framed as 'defensive' or a 'response' to a provocable enemy. One might wonder at what point a 'threat' becomes simple foretelling. While the media frames it as a response, the pattern suggests unilateral aggression under rhetorical cover. The casualty count, now including a child, isn't an aberration but a routine feature of these 'ceasefires.' Apparently, the
commitment to peace is highly selective, applying only to one side's survival, and always conditional on the other side's non-existence.