Palestinians beat back Israeli attack on Gaza
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VOL. 30, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2012 WWW.SOCIALISTACTION.ORG U.S. / CANADA $1 Palestinian woman holds her baby daughter at Nov. 16 funeral in northern Gaza.
According to hospital records, the child was killed in an earlier Israeli strike.
INSIDE SOCIALIST ACTION When a ceasefire agreement ended (for no-one knows how long) Israel’s latest murderous assault on Gaza, Palestinians in the besieged area poured into the streets to celebrate their victory. But how could this be, after at least 160 Palestinians had been murdered, at least 40 of them women and children, and a thousand injured?
How could it be when everyone knew the clause in the ceasefire agreement about loosening restric tions on movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza only pro vided for discussions of the issue, discussions almost guaranteed to go nowhere?
How could it be when everyone knew that Israel was guaranteed to break this ceasefire as it had all oth ers in the past, unilaterally and with out provocation (except for the prov ocations arranged by Israel itself)?
The celebrations came because Pal estinians knew that they had proven once again to the entire world that no Tony Savino / Socialist Action Bernat Armangue / AP attack by Israel, however murderous, no government and media campaign of lies, no attempt to force psycho logical submission could stifle their almost century-long resistance to Zi onist colonization.
And this time around, that word “re sistance” was key. Despite attempts to portray Palestinian missiles as the cause of Operation Pillar of Cloud, more and more people around the world had come to learn that Isra el’s siege, its repeated unprovoked assassinations, and its 65-year-old campaign of ethnic cleansing are at the root of the endless series of wars launched by Israel.
What’s more, just as education dur ing the 2008-9 aggression (“Opera tion Cast Lead”) convinced many in antiwar and solidarity movements that the right of return of refugees must be supported and that a twostate “solution” was a farce, now ex posure of the roots of Operation Pil lar of Cloud in Israel’s policies, indeed its very nature as a colonial state, has convinced wider circles that they (continued on page 5, in “Egypt: Morsi decree ignites mass protests”)
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