https://thewire.in/world/with-the-uss-help-netanyahu-is-paving-the-worlds-road-to-hell
When Hamas, which controls even though it does not govern Gaza, suddenly broke the fragile peace that had existed between Jews and Arabs in that enclave for the previous two years, entered Israel simultaneously from seven places, killed up to 1,400 Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank, and dragged more than 200 hostages into Gaza, a world that has grown weary of wars being fought year after year in places it has barely heard of, for reasons that it can neither understand nor condone, reacted with shock and immediate condemnation.
This weariness with conflict has created the moral space for Israel’s hugely disproportionate retaliation. By October 24, when it announced that it was ending its carpet bombing of north Gaza and sending in ground forces to ferret out and kill Hamas’s leaders and fighters, Israel’s armed forces had killed 5,087 Palestinian civilians, of whom a thousand were women and more than 2,000 were children, and injured 15,273 others. This amounted to killing or maiming one in every hundred Gazans in 15 days of Israeli bombardment.
Despite this awful slaughter of a caged and unarmed civilian population, the world’s governments have remained largely silent. It took Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, 13 days to call Israel’s carpet bombing of North Gaza a genocide. It has taken six days longer for the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt and Morocco to condemn Israel in a joint statement at the UN General Assembly.
31/10/2023