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Why Israel Didn’t Win
Adam Shatz
The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of
fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises
to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will
not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its assault on the
Strip, and Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at southern
Israel, but it leaves Gaza as miserable as ever: according to a recent
UN report, the Strip will be ‘uninhabitable’ by 2020. And this is to
speak only of Gaza. How easily one is made to forget that Gaza is only a
part – a very brutalised part – of the ‘future Palestinian state’ that
once seemed inevitable, and which now seems to exist mainly in the
lullabies of Western peace processors. None of the core issues of the
Israel-Palestine conflict – the Occupation, borders, water rights,
repatriation and compensation of refugees – is addressed by this
agreement.
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