Nobody is a winner. Isreal has so many excuses for the most absurd things that it’s beginning to sound a lot like Bush. Mortars fired at a school where they say Hamas militants were firing from? Honestly. Two UN aid workers killed? How did that happen? Was an imaginary militant sitting on the front of the forklift firing rockets? As far as I’m concerned, that whole area is a mess, and they’re all killing innocent people for absolutely nothing. Children never deserve to die. to get them caught in any kind of crossfire is beyond moral comprehension and has no place in any world.
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was asked whether she thought if Isreal was living up to its human rights obligations, which everyone and their dog should be able to answer. She replied that “…it was hard for Israel to safeguard civilians because Gaza was very densely populated” (BBC News). And the media is surprised that Stephen Harper is mum on the issue? Better to say nothing on the subject than something that ignorant. Instead of being concerned about innocent people being caught in the crossfire (and there are many more innocents in Gaza City than hostiles), they choose to fire in this “densely populated” area with no concern for everyone else? I admit Isreal can’t stand by and continue to accept rockets being fired into their territory, but this has gotten out of hand. There is no concern for civilians, and in modern warfare this is unacceptable.
