Pandangan Lain Tentang Konflik di Gaza

Berikut ini ada pandangan lain tentang konflik di Gaza, diambil dari situs http://www.g2mil.com/decline2.htm.

Teori ini cukup dapat menjelaskan, mengapa tentara Israel yang begitu kuat nampak tidak dapat mengalahkan pejuang Palestina. Namun demikian belum tentu juga bahwa penjelasan ini adalah yang paling benar.

Nov 21, 2012 – Understanding Gaza

You may be confused about the never ending conflict in Gaza. Every year “militants” in Gaza launch rockets at Israel, doing little harm. Israeli warplanes bomb Gaza “in self-defense” and kill dozens, to recruit more militants. The conflict goes on and on because we are told that neither side wants peace.

Peta Jalur Gaza

If one reads international news (i.e. non-USA), stories appear about Israel’s gradual ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. Israeli squatter towns (aka settlements in American news) continually expand after Arabs are forced off their lands, in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions. In order for this to continue year after year, a “comprehensive peace plan” must be avoided. This is achieved by perpetual “fighting” around Gaza. Israel maintains complete control of Gaza’s borders (including access to the sea), so how do “militants” acquire thousands of unguided rockets every year? Most are home made, but where do they get the propellant and explosives?

Israel ensures they are supplied. Israel refuses to guard Gaza’s border with Egypt, even though it could easily establish a security strip on the Gaza side to ensure that no rockets, propellants, or explosives cross into Gaza. Egyptian troops could also secure the border, but show no interest. There have been several international news reports over the years of large tunnels under the Gaza border where all sorts of things are “smuggled.” This includes the current issue of “National Geographic” and television news shows where reporters walk through the tunnels. However, whenever Israeli airstrikes occur, the tunnels are rarely targeted. I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel’s Mossad secretly ensures a steady supply of rockets to Gazans.

Despite all our “news” coverage, no one ever suggests the solution is to simply seal the Egyptian-Gazan border, using UN troops if necessary, so that no more rockets rain on Israel and a comprehensive peace plan can be enacted. No one asks why Israeli warplanes bomb varied targets around Gaza rather than the tunnels? Why doesn’t the Israeli army just sweep into the border area and destroy all the tunnels? Most television reporters can read a map, so why do they fear to address this obvious question?

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This week an experienced NBC reporter was playing soccer with four boys on a Gazan beach when Israeli gunboats opened fire. The boys were killed while the angry reporter escaped and reported on the incident, noting there are no military targets in the area and the locals are furious. He was quickly ordered out of Gaza by NBC executives and replaced by a reporter who happens to be Jewish.