Skywalker Storyteller Works

By

M.J. Rosenberg

Listening to Netanyahu’s defenders in the media (and that is pretty much all you get as objective reporters are yanked off the air), I’m struck by how Americans are indoctrinated into ignoring the most significant fact about Gaza.

It is under Israeli occupation (now called blockade) and has been since 1967.

That is the cause of the “war.” Yes, Israel has the “right” to defend itself but Palestinians have the “right” to resist occupation. Those conflicting rights are leading to perdition and, in my opinion, the loss of the Israel many of us have loved and identified with our entire lives.

The oft-proclaimed Gaza withdrawal was a fraud. Although Israel pulled the settlers out, it has maintained a blockade of Gaza ever since, blocking its air, sea, and land borders, locking its people in a giant prison.

At the time Ariel Sharon withdrew the settlers, when the…

In the 2009 aggression on Gaza, I remember how my emotions directly switched from a full support to Hamas as a government whom I believed was never given the chance to govern after winning the elections two years before, with a pressure both from the international parties and finally from the Fateh previously governing party. The continuous scenes of death invaded every vein in me. Suddenly I found myself thinking, what is the value of a nation without people. What is Palestine without people? The brutality of the Israeli war machine targeting every living thing in Gaza that mounted to over a thousand and five hundred victims was too much of a price for some rockets that were hitting Sderot settlement like fireworks.

I always believed that resistance is an obligation. It takes different shapes and levels. Armed resistance is also legitimate but losses should be evaluated well before starting…