Stop committing war crimes!

“The possibility of a lasting deal between Israel and the Palestinians seems as far away as ever — and the history of failed negotiations suggests it’s largely because Israel prefers the status quo.” — Nathan Thrall, journalist, and analyst on the Middle East. ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/16/the-real-reason-the-israel-palestine-peace-process-always-fails )

The picture on the top is the upscale high-rise apartment building in Gaza City destroyed in a cloud of fire and smoke by an Israeli airstrike. 22 people were wounded in the fireball explosion, including 11 children and 5 women. The entire building held 44 residential apartments. The building in Gaza City housing the offices of the Associated Press and other media organizations was hit by an Israeli airstrike on May 15. (Khalil Hamra/AP). The picture on the bottom is Scottsdale Arizona.

Gaza City and Scottsdale are municipalities of approximately the same size. Can anyone imagine the United States government firing rockets into the middle of Scottsdale? Yet that’s exactly what Israel did. It fired rockets into the middle of a city of 500,000 human beings. More than 200 people were killed in Israel and the occupied territories in the first week of the latest hostilities, the vast majority of them Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

“There’s no doubt…