Israel War Crimes

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the one of the world’s oldest conflicts, and it is still an ongoing problem in the world. Zionists and Arabs: two groups with conflicting beliefs who both claim Israel as their own. In wake of the Holocaust the U.N decided to gift the Jews a homeland for the lives lost in the genocide. In 1947, the U.N Partition divided the land of Israel (Historic Palestine) into two separate states: Arab and Jewish. Since then, the state of Israel has been the center of conflict between the Arabs and the Zionists. As time passed the Zionists gained more land from winning the Six-Day War, and consequently the Palestinians had to live as refugees in other Arab countries. Additionally, more than 75% of the land belonged to

According to the Human Rights Watch during July 23 and 24, 2014 in Khuza’a, a border town between the Gaza Strip and Israel, Israeli soldiers were shooting and killing innocent families while trying to force them out of their homes. At first the Israeli military gave warnings to the civilians warning them to flee their homes however most did not listen. Many had nowhere to go and stayed only in fear. Afterwards they used force shooting, and shelling the Palestinians. Killing children and families who only want to live better lives is unacceptable by all international standards. Israel’s excessive force should not be tolerated before any more lives are lost. To add on, Israel has been purposefully denying Palestinians access to basic human resources such as food and clean water. A United Nations report states that In 2010 six ships led by the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief were sailing to the Gaza Strip. They were attempting to bring aid in clean water, food, medical supplies and building supplies to the Palestinian people. However in May Israeli special forces boarded the ships killing 10 activists and detaining several hundred. They took control over the boats and sailed them to Israeli ports. This is purely an act evil against people who just wanted to help. There is no reason for a country to deny humanitarian aid to

The war for the independence of Israel was not a war as much as it was a hostile takeover of Palestine by any means necessary. Two infamous Jewish forces, the Irgun and the Haganah, often used terror tactics to achieve their goals and both focusing their energies on reprisals against Arabs and the British. Their tactics killed hundreds of innocent civilians in the name of a Jewish state and the Haganah even attacked their own people, framing the Palestinians, in order to generate support and sympathy for the their cause, but these acts appealed to some who “believed that any action taken in the cause of the creation of a Jewish state was justified.” There were unquestionably consequences to these actions as well as violent reactions to a Jewish state from other Middle Eastern states. When Israel finally declared independence, “the armies of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan, and Iraq invaded Israel” and began the first war between the Arabs and now Israelis. Although the Arab Legion lost the war against Israel, in part to the support Israel received from the United States, it set a precedent for Arab-Israeli relations which have been tense every since and there still has yet to be reconciliation between the Israelis and Palestinians, who continue to be oppressed and persecuted.

The killing and maiming of children, something done by both sides of the war, is done in complete disregard of the UN Resolution 1261 which “strongly condemns the targeting of children” and calls upon the involved parties to “comply strictly with their obligations under international law.” Children in this war have grown up fearing that a bomber or soldier could kill them at any time and with no warning. This, in my opinion, means that the international community has clearly failed to encourage the involved parties to respect the points laid out in that resolution. After learning about the treatment of Palestinian children by the Israeli army, I am appalled at the lack of action on an international scale against such acts as shooting a twelve year old child fifteen times. The desires and ideology of state actors should never be placed above the safety of

It is not America’s place to invade and devastate Iraq, to have sent soldiers to kill thousands of people during the Iraq war, 90% of whom were civilians. It is not America’s place to continue to fund and defend Israel’s genocide and bombing against Palestine. It is not their place to determine who is guilty and innocent of war crimes; this right must go directly to the victims instead. The United States’ responsibility is to uplift and support the voices of the people and take action based off and with consent of their words, not to speak over them and to twist their calls for help as justifications to invade and destroy.

First and foremost, each organization has their own goal and viewpoint for an independent Palestinian Arab Nation. On one side the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) has a goal of taking over the state of Israel through the Islamic holy war. To add, they want people to pledge to Allah and say that their way of life is Islam. They

HAMAS basically believes that the land they have been fighting for over the last two decades is theirs. Since it's derived from a Muslim brotherhood and unwilling to recognize the right of Israel to exist, the organization

HAMAS, an Arabic acronym meaning “Islamic Resistance Movement”, is the name of the socio-political organization currently in power over the Gaza Strip. For decades Jews & Muslims and Israelis & Palestinians, often one in the same, have fought for control over the region. Each have killed thousands of the other, destroyed infrastructures and used underhanded tactics to gain an advantage. Nations such as Japan, the European Union, the United States and (of course) Israel classify the group as terrorists, while nations such as Turkey, Russia and Switzerland do not. (King, 2010) Many factors are taken into consideration before a Nation-State denounces an organization as a “terrorist group”. A profile of HAMAS may help make clear why it is

The Israelis are known to protect there neighborhoods from incoming rocket propelled grenades. Israel does certainly have the right to defend itself from the heavy opposition. It is a volatile situation when any nation can cause violence for having different beliefs. Nonetheless the definition of one’s rights varies from different countries. Israel is outnumbered, yet still manages to survive, although, the threat is not gone. Many nations surrounding the Jewish State condemn the close relationship between the United States and Israel because the United States has contributed to the preservation of the Jewish nation. The Arab resistance yearns to take total dominion over the west bank of Israel.

The Hamas participate in things such as large-scale suicide bombings, continuous attacking on the country of Israel, small-arm attacks, roadside explosives, and numerous, way too many to count, rocket attacks.

Have you ever thought about why Palestinians kill Israelites in cold blood? The media puts stories out to the public saying that Palestinians are committing acts of terrorism and have no reason to do so. That is only one side of the story, not enough people look at the palestinian side of things and why they were doing the things they are doing to Israelites. Israel has done so many terrible things to the Palestinians for years. Israel ended up building a giant wall around Palestine and put many checkpoints down saying that it was to keep the Palestinians out of Israel, but in reality, the wall and checkpoints were used to control the Palestinians.

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal declared in an interview with CBS News that Hamas is willing to co-exist with Israelis, but not under the IDF occupation of Palestinian territory. Mashaal stressed that the root cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the military occupation of the Gaza Strip and not religious fundamentalism or anti-Jewish sentiments. He told CBS' Charlie Rose, “We are not fanatics; we are not fundamentalists. We do not actually fight the Jews because they are Jews per se. We do not fight any other races. We fight the occupiers.” Mashaal also re-iterated Hamas' demand that Egypt and Israel end the blockades of Palestinian sea ports and airspace.

The Israel-Gaza conflict was started by Israel in The Gaza Strip, ruled by Hamas, an Islamic military group. It was started after Hamas fired rockets Israeli cities and infrastructures. Israel spent seven weeks on this conflict. This conflict, lead to deaths of thousands of people. Most of them were Gazans. The operation was started to stop Gaza from firing rockets into Israel. Even more rockets were fired after Israel destroyed the suspects of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli tennagers by two men from Hamas. Gaza's goal was to cause other countries to pressure Israel into lifting its barrier on Gaza. They wanted another country to guarantee that Israel will agree with the cease-fire, release Palestinian prisoners, and break its national isolation. On August 10, an Egyptian cease-fire proposal was agreed to by Israeli and Palestinian officials. On August 13, the cease-fire was continued for another 120 hours. This allowed both sides to have time for more negotiations for a long-term solution to the fighting. On August 19, the cease-fire 24 hour ceasefire was broken with 29 Hamas rockets fired in 20 minutes. On August 21, Israel fired rockets which killed three Hamas commanders. Much more fighting continued over the next couple of days. On August 26, another ceasefire was agreed upon, which still stands to this day. Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Hamas for the Israel-Gaza conflict and

The Israelis claim that they are conducting these wars to protect their citizens and that they only target militants that fire rockets to their cities. The Palestinians, on the other hand; reject those claims and believe that the Israeli aggression is a continuation of decade long policies of the Israeli government aimed at making their life difficult so to force them out of their homeland.

Both of these approaches would pave the way for Hamas’ seemingly bipolar tenure in Palestine. By the 1970’s, the Palestinian population was disillusioned by secularism, Westernization and materialism, and many looked toward the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic revival as an alternative . A drastic turn of events led to niche in Palestine that a more violent facet of the Muslim Brotherhood was willing to fill.