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Bodies were lined up on the ground with family members expressing a great deal of grief and agony,
Jabalia is being bombed as if the war has just begun and the world is blind about it,
said Salah, 60, a father of five who is a resident of Gaza City We live at least seven kilometres away, but the sounds of Israeli airstrikes and tank shelling deprive us of sleep. The world must stop Israeli crimes,
In the midst of winter, ... I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
We have failed the people of Gaza.”
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has condemned these killing and has said Iran has trapped Israel and Biden failed to let Netanyahu fall in the trap.”
The murder of six million Jews was the prime causative factor in the creation of the state of Israel.”
Historian Paul Johnson writes in A History Of The Jews The Arabs, by contrast, were a conquering race whose sacred writings both inspired and reflected a maximalist position towards other people ... the very concept of negotiation towards a final settlement was to them a betrayal of principle. A truce, an armistice might be necessary and was acceptable because it preserved the option of force for use later. A treaty, on the other hand, appeared to them a kind of surrender.”
One of the things to keep in mind is that the current refugee and asylum system inherently has a mobility bias,
The choice not to push Egypt to allow people in; the choice not to push Israel to ensure the right of return for people who do flee; the choice not to supply the bombs that cause people to flee -- all of these are political choices,
For the Palestinians, this is par for the course,
said Stephanie Schwartz, a scholar on migration politics at the London School of Economics If Israel can attack terrorists living among civilians and destroy their homes, where are these refugees supposed to go
said Harold Hongju Koh, a former US State Department human-rights official who is a professor at Yale Law School Everybody has got culpability here,
said Michael Posner, a former US assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor who now teaches at the Stern School of Business at New York University This is particularly true if polio returns in Gaza,
We know from experience, and we know from the specific history of Israel-Lebanon, that they don’t ever intend to stay. They don’t intend to occupy, but that’s what happens,
says Zonszein, the Crisis Group analyst All eyes used to be on Gaza, and now they are on Lebanon. And therefore what's happening in the West Bank goes pretty much under the radar, but it is quite dramatic,
We’re going to see the West Bank sliding in a Gaza-like direction,
Novik argues, citing, among other factors, rising settler violence and the increasing appeal of armed resistance groups among Palestinian youth, many of whom have no memory of the Second Intifada and embrace the resistance ethos of Hamas Absent a change of policy in Jerusalem, we are sliding into an open-ended occupation of Gaza,
says Nimrod Novik, a fellow at the Israel Policy Forum and the former foreign policy advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres From now until Nov. 5, he has more free reign than ever, because he knows that the Biden Administration is certainly not going to do anything before the election,
says Yousef Munayyer, a nonresident fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, D.C., and a longtime observer of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict The prime minister is driving decisions on national security based on partisan, personal considerations,
Novik says, referencing recent revelations that