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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Israel Provoked This War It’s up to President Obama to stop it. By HENRY SIEGMAN

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/israel-provoked-this-war-109229.html#ixzz38IW6pecR

Israel Provoked This War

It’s up to President Obama to stop it.

By HENRY SIEGMAN
July 22, 2014
There seems to be near-universal agreement in the United States with President Barack Obama’s observation that Israel, like every other country, has the right and obligation to defend its citizens from threats directed at them from beyond its borders.
But this anodyne statement does not begin to address the political and moral issues raised by Israel’s bombings and land invasion of Gaza: who violated the cease-fire agreement that was in place since November 2012 and whether Israel’s civilian population could have been protected by nonviolent means that would not have placed Gaza’s civilian population at risk. As of this writing, the number killed by the Israel Defense Forces has surpassed 600, the overwhelming majority of whom are noncombatants.http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/israel-provoked-this-war-109229.html#ixzz38IW6pecR

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