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Israel has lost both morally, politically and militarily in its war against Gaza

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Former US State Secretary Henry Kissinger once said: "If a strong country does not win its war against a weaker country, it will be a loser. If the weaker county is not defeated in this war it will be the winner."

If we apply what Kissinger has said on the Gaza war, we will definitely find out that Gaza, which is not a country or a state, is the real winner. Gaza is a piece of land which is about 30 kilometers long and 12 kilometers wide. In some areas, its width tapers to six kilometers. It is inhabited by about two million people, making it among the densely populated places in the world.

Gaza has been under Israel's air-land-and-sea blockage for about eight years now. Israel has been occupying the Strip since its six-day war against three Arab countries — Egypt, Syria and Jordan — in 1967.

During this brief war, Israel has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights, the West Bank, which was under Jordan's administration, and the Egyptian Sinai desert. Until this war, Gaza was under Egypt's administration.

Following the peaceful negotiations between Israel and Egypt in the late 1970s, Egypt has regained sovereignty over the Sinai desert. Gaza remained under Israel's occupation.

Israel pulled out of Gaza unilaterally under the strong resistance of its people but has since then imposed an unjust siege on it.

Whoever dared to break the blockade or provide relief assistance to the people of Gaza, would be fired upon by the Israeli army. This is exactly what happened to the Turkish freighter MV Mavi Marmara, which Israel had attacked in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea killing nine passengers. The freighter was part of a six-ship "freedom" flotilla which was to deliver relief goods to Gaza on May 31, 2010.

The incident soured relations between Turkey and Israel. Turkey refused to normalize relations with Israel and put three conditions for this: a formal apology by Israel, compensation to the families of the victims and lifting of the blockade against Gaza.

Israel apologized for the incident but refused to pay compensations or lift the blockade against Gaza.

As I have said earlier, Gaza is neither a country nor a state. It thus can not be compared with Israel which has one of the most modern weaponry and the strongest armies in the world. It has far advanced military aircraft and tanks.

Israel launched its current attack against Gaza which is still under the suffocating siege. Young Palestinians in Gaza who were fed up by the blockade and were yearning for freedom, decided to fight back. They did this heroically.

Israel has launched war after war against Gaza. It killed many of the Palestinian leaders and subjected the Strip to measures that make Palestinian children hungry. It has used excessive force in its war against Gaza to coerce its people who bravely stood fast.

Israel's aggression against Gaza was tantamount to war crimes and violations of all human rights. These crimes were committed by the army, which Israel always says is indefatigable.

The Israeli army is considered the fifth strongest in the world, considering its number of soldiers, armament and military training. Just imagine the small and helpless Gaza fighting this army for more than a month!

Israel receives military and economic aide in billions of dollar from the West, especially the United States which has promised to ensure Israel's military supremacy over all Arab countries put together.

The US is also providing blind political and diplomatic support to the Zionist state. America has always vetoed UN Security Council's resolutions that condemn Israel for its atrocities and inhuman practices against the Palestinian people.

Israel, therefore, has been safe from any condemnation by the world body, thanks to the blind American support. It is free to break international laws and breach international conventions that protect the people under its occupation. There is no more occupations, except in Palestine where the ugly racist Israeli occupation remains.

Israel has launched its latest war against Gaza for a variety of reasons. These include its attempts to foil Palestinian national reconciliation, which was recently concluded between Hamas in Gaza and the Palestine Authority in the West Bank.

This reconciliation has culminated in the formation of a national unity government.

Israel does not really want peace. It is using negotiations as a pretext to gain time in order to build more Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Gaza was strongly against these negotiations which it said were futile and would lead to nowhere.

Israel wanted to silence Gaza and crush its resistance and depended on its sheer military might. It used F-16 fighter planes, missiles tanks in a barbaric manner to kill civilians and destroy buildings over their heads.

Israel has targeted mosques, hospitals and schools. It attacked a special school of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) and killed many Palestinian women and children who took refuge in the school.

Israel has also targeted orphanages and the homes of the disabled, leveling them to the ground. It attacked ambulances carrying the dead and the injured and shelled children who were playing on the seashore.

This gave Gaza no other choice but to fight back. Using outmoded conventional weapons, the freedom fighters put on a strong fight and killed a number of Israeli soldiers. Their simple missiles reached a number of Israeli towns, forcing their people to take shelter. For the first time in its recent history, Israel was forced to suspend its international flights.

Israel had incurred huge losses in human lives but would not reveal them. However, observers believe that Israel's losses in this war were immense.

Israel has destroyed thousands of houses as well as water and power stations. Gaza has stood fast, despite the odds. It did not surrender.

Israel has lost both morally, politically and militarily in its war against Gaza. The small and defenseless Gaza has thus won its war against Israel's army with all its might. It proved that what Kissinger had said was right.

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Both sides are at fault for perpetuating the misery of millions, and both sides need to work together to resolve the issues involved.
 
Both sides are at fault for perpetuating the misery of millions, and both sides need to work together to resolve the issues involved.
You are suggesting Gazan to put their heads down and live their lives like slaves of Zionists. My friend, three generations Gazan (and Palestinians) are born and raised in war. Their psychology is very different. There are some among them who do have slave-like mentality, but an overwhelming majority of Palestinians believe firmly in living a free life in a free land. Hats off to their perseverance and courage to stand tall, and stand alone against the might of Zionists.
 
You are suggesting Gazan to put their heads down and live their lives like slaves of Zionists. My friend, three generations Gazan (and Palestinians) are born and raised in war. Their psychology is very different. There are some among them who do have slave-like mentality, but an overwhelming majority of Palestinians believe firmly in living a free life in a free land. Hats off to their perseverance and courage to stand tall, and stand alone against the might of Zionists.

Firing rockets will not give them the freedom that they seek and deserve.

Coming to a mature decision to complete the necessary processes to get them their own state will enable to regain their dignity. That is the correct thing to do here.
 
Firing rockets will not give them the freedom that they seek and deserve.

Coming to a mature decision to complete the necessary processes to get them their own state will enable to regain their dignity. That is the correct thing to do here.
Israel did not invade Gaza because the rockets were fired, but they accused Hamas of killing three Israelis. This allegation also fell flat as Hamas found not be involved in Israelis killing.
 
Israel did not invade Gaza because the rockets were fired, but they accused Hamas of killing three Israelis. This allegation also fell flat as Hamas found not be involved in Israelis killing.

I am talking of the overall situation where a cycle of violence keep getting perpetuated by tit for tat acts on both sides with a long history.
 
I am talking of the overall situation where a cycle of violence keep getting perpetuated by tit for tat acts on both sides with a long history.
Lets accept the fact that we cannot help Palestinians, but the least we could do is to leave them alone, can we? It is them who are living in there and they know better what to do. We should keep our wisdom to ourselves and try to improve our own situation if we could.
 
Lets accept the fact that we cannot help Palestinians, but the least we could do is to leave them alone, can we? It is them who are living in there and they know better what to do. We should keep our wisdom to ourselves and try to improve our own situation if we could.

Encouraging both sides to participate in negotiations leading to a two state stable solution is the correct thing to do.
 
Now, Hamas will think 20 times before firing rocket. Good work that Israel destroyed all tunnels but i don't support civilian killing.
Now Gaza is more 10 year behind. U.N should provide maximum aid to civilians of Palestine.
 
Now, Hamas will think 20 times before firing rocket. Good work that Israel destroyed all tunnels but i don't support civilian killing.
Now Gaza is more 10 year behind. U.N should provide maximum aid to civilians of Palestine.

Saudi Arabia pledged to rebuild Gaza in a statement released yesterday by the FM HRH Prince Saud Al-Faisla.
 
Now, Hamas will think 20 times before firing rocket. Good work that Israel destroyed all tunnels but i don't support civilian killing.
Now Gaza is more 10 year behind. U.N should provide maximum aid to civilians of Palestine.

We already told you this had nothing to do with rockets. Saying they have weapons stored means nothing as well. Israel has tens of thousands of shells/heavy missiles stored in Israel. This doesn't give any of their neighbors a pretext to attack them.
 
Israel lost, no doubt about that, at this point many people would point to the butcher's bill and say that so and so many Palestinians died compared to Israelis, little do they know, that is the exact reason Israel has lost.
 
Saudi Arabia pledged to rebuild Gaza in a statement released yesterday by the FM HRH Prince Saud Al-Faisla.
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wht saudi done to stop war in gaza ?
or pressurize Isreal or Hamas or Palestine to stop war ?
 
Israel lost, no doubt about that, at this point many people would point to the butcher's bill and say that so and so many Palestinians died compared to Israelis, little do they know, that is the exact reason Israel has lost.

Hamas calculated this to be the case when it made the decision to use civilian areas as launching pads. It succeeded on this basis.
 

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