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Gaza ceasefire
(Kaieteur News) – Though it is an old cliché, where there is a will, there’s a way, doesn’t age. When there is that rarest of combinations, will and skill, then success usually is the reward. After two horrible, tragic years, the guns have gone silent in Gaza. We hope that they stay that way, and that there will be strenuous efforts to rebuild and create the space for a lasting peace.
Why did the Gaza ceasefire have to wait so long? Why did so many more thousands of Palestinians have to die by bullet and bomb, watch their homes getting demolished? They were the lucky ones, for there were those Palestinians who never made it out of their bombed homes when they collapsed. Why did so much blood, such a reign of terror, and a season of agony have to be endured in a war that was so one-sided that it was a crime for it to happen, then continue so long? Though there is a ceasefire, the pain and suffering are only now beginning for the Palestinians, who bore the brunt of loss of life and limb, their homes and meager belongings, and their peace of mind. How can these human beings not be shellshocked from their multiple traumas, now know peace in this time of relative calm?
The war itself was a crime, and as often described, a massacre, a holocaust, nothing but a genocidal period dedicated to exterminating people, as if they were rodents. A crime bigger than the one perpetrated by the Western powers. When the West turned its face away, pretended not to see, nor grasp the full extent of the horrors inflicted by the Israelis, then that was a palpable crime by itself. The dreadful daily toll was too much, the mangled bodies, the desperate people, the destroyed homes, all added up to provide the grim evidence of brutality taken to the extreme. The hunt was for Hamas fighters, which meant that if civilians and refugee camps had to be battered and shattered, for such is the bitter price of total war. In other words, too bad, and get use to the statistics of collateral damage, the daily images of human carnage.
When food relief convoys and medical facilities were attacked, with fatalities resulting and supplies disrupted, can that still be considered war? Bloody vengeance driven by an insatiable blood lust should be closer to the truth of Palestinian reality on the ground. Where was the West, those countries and leaders that lecture the world about civilization and standards, and the rights of man? Where was America, the guardian of all that is good for the world, when the Palestinians in Gaza were having their noses buried in the dirt, while the boots of Israeli soldiers walked all over them? Some of the European countries took their time, but came around as the times grew more barbaric in the Gaza. The pressures that developed from the actions of those countries played no small part in leading to the day of ceasefire.
But it was America that had the first say, the most influential say, and the last word. Stop this madness, stop expanding the conflict into the territory and against the citizens of other countries. Stop playing with fire, so that the situation that started with the Hamas invasion that led to the deaths of over 1200 Israeli civilians does not spread, and becomes uncontrollable. The hawkish Israeli war cabinet knew how far it could push the envelope of war. But its members were wise enough to know that it needed the US and could not risk losing its support, its presence as a deterrent to anything that threatens Israel’s standing in the comity of nations.
The Trump White House had the Israelis’ back above and beyond, and through a conflict that isolated Benjamin Netanyahu and his fellow warmongers as war criminals. If the Israelis did not come out on top of what had raged in the Gaza for over two years, it was likely that its generals and their civilian masters would have been branded as war criminals. The Israelis won, but at what price? The Palestinians lost, with a miserable future hanging over their heads.
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