In late 2008 Israel engineered yet another war on the shit hole we know as Gaza. People, actual people, live in Gaza. Hamas had virtually stopped all rockets from Gaza into Israel as part of a brokered deal. As part of that deal, Israel was supposed to lift its illegal blockade of Gaza. The blockade of Gaza is illegal because it is a form of collective punishment. But Israel didn't lift its illegal blockade of Gaza. So Hamas continued to smuggle supplies into Gaza through tunnels. The war in late 2008 was caused by Israel attacking Hamas smuggling routes into Gaza and killing members of Hamas. But Hamas was smuggling because Israel had not lifted the blockade as part of the deal!! As a consequence Hamas fired a few rockets into Israel. Israel retaliated with utter ruthlessness and brutality. Very few Israelis died due to Hamas rocket fire, but due to Israel's Operation Cast Lead, Israel killed well over 1000 civilians in Gaza.
This was repeated, but much, much worse, in 2014, when Israel killed over 500 children in Gaza.
There was a UN SCR resolution on this war engineered in 2008, which was UN SCR 1860, calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
The vote was:
14 votes for
1 abstention
Can you guess who abstained?
Yep. The USA!!
And so it has been for a lot of UN SCR resolutions critical of Israel.
This is why Gaza is such a shit hole, why Israel feels it can bomb over 500 children of Gaza to bits without fear of criticism from the USA. Israel has the USA by the short and curlies.
And is why the USA has gone along with the plan we are seeing unfold since 9/11 for war and regime change in North Africa and the Middle East.
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