Things Fall Apart

For 1.5 million folks in Gaza, the new year opened old wounds, with Israel launching repeated air strikes into the impoverished region. The State of Israel has continued its 'War on Gaza' unleashing a vicious and repugnant assault on the Gaza Strip, let us not forget that the State of Israel was formed due to what we now term terrorism, in 1946, Menachem Begin's group, the Irgun blew up the King David Hotel which was the headquarters of the British Army, the Irgun killed over a hundred people in that attack, the Jewish need to have a country was so strong that they stood up to the might of the British Empire in order to have a land they truly called home. They killed and destroyed in order to have their way.
Now we are in 2009, many wars have passed, Israel still occupies the West Bank and no matter what nonsense their spokespeople say, they occupy Gaza, you don't need to have soldiers stationed on the ground for it to be termed occupation. Israel controls the airspace, the ports, and the land, nothing can enter Gaza without the consent of Israel.
As crazy as the Hamas charter is, and it is deranged, the Palestinian people have every right as the Jewish people had in the 40s to an independent, fully self governing state.
So far almost 800, Eight Hundred Palestinian men, women and children have died, killed by the abominable bombardment of the Gaza Strip a.k.a The World's Largest Prison.
My heart breaks when I see pictures of children as young as four with bullet holes in their chests, what have four year olds done to warrant an M-16 being shot at them?
The stolidity of the so called 'International Community' has been appalling, do a thousand need to die first?? I realize there is a lot at play here in terms of power politics, but we must do something, as humans we have a responsibility to each other, and when 800 people are killed in 13 days by another country in the name of self-defense, we as humans must say a big "ENOUGH!"
The Holy-Land is soaked red with the blood of Israelis and Palestinians, enough is enough, one cannot bomb their way to peace.
We must send a strong message to the State of Israel that their criminal military and humanitarian campaign can no longer be tolerated.

ENOUGH!