I’m sure we’re all aware of the situation in Gaza. Long story short: those terrorist dickheads in Hamas started firing rockets into Israeli territory again, killing a few people. The Israeli government responded with its usual overkill, which has resulted in the deaths of over seven hundred people, many of them civilians. The Israeli response is continuing, complete with airstrikes, artillery shelling, and ground assaults. They won’t stop until Hamas is ground into paste. (There’s international attempts at a ceasefire, but who knows if they’ll work.)

While that certainly sounds good on paper, it covers up the real problem. Aside from the previously mentioned overkill (the Israeli Defense Forces have killed far more civilians than Hamas has at this point), the humanitarian disaster is even worse. Gaza’s almost completely cut off, with the populace hiding in terror from the IDF. Water, electricity, food, and basic medicine are scarce. As this confrontation goes on, the death toll is going to skyrocket due to these humanitarian problems alone, not just bombs and bullets.

It’s appalling that world governments aren’t doing a damn thing about it. We all know the United States approves of anything and everything Israel does; that’s always been the status quo. Israel could randomly fire a nuclear missile into Tehran, and the US would firmly support it. Plenty of other nations have expressed disgust over Israel’s actions (while condemning Hamas at the same time, mind you), but they don’t have the balls to step up to the plate and do anything about it. Trying to pass a resolution through the United Nations Security Council is obviously a pointless measure, as the US will veto it. General Assembly resolutions would pass, but they’re non-binding, and therefore equally pointless. So why not cut off diplomatic relations, trade, and so forth? Until they can behave like civilized human beings and quit blowing each other to smithereens, we should just cut them off from the rest of the world.

The other thing that pisses me off about the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is that you can’t criticize any Israeli actions without being called anti-Semitic. You shouldn’t even joke about that shit. Look, we all know how horrible the Holocaust was; it’s a giant black mark on human history. That does not, however, give you carte blanche to do whatever you want! Hamas and their ilk are horrible excuses for human beings, but killing hundreds more people than they have in retaliation doesn’t make you any better. It makes you worse, and the last thing you want to do is sink to a lower level than your enemy.