What happens if you take someone's land? What happens if you herd thousands of people into a much smaller space than they used to live on? What happens if farmers can no longer farm?
Now that they are concentrated in one area and don't have food, what happens if you stop supplies from coming in? What happens if you don't let them out of this occupied area to work, or go to school? Next, you give them an ID card that states not only their name, but also their religion. If the wrong thing is printed on the card those same people can't visit parts of the cities they used to live in, that they helped build.
Now those same people use homemade bombs to fight back. Sixty years of occupation is a long time. The oppressors, were once a people that were once oppressed themselves. Wouldn't you think, more than any other group, that a people that had six million of their own killed, would see that their own deeds are repeating past atrocities? Against small homemade bombs (which I'm not condoning, but can see the reason for) they use cluster bombs specifically made to kill civilians (that is why 94 nations signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions to prohibit their use).
Genocide is repeated by a nation that should know better than any other how wrong their actions are. Now, not only are they bombing those they have corralled for genocide, but also humanitarian efforts that are trying to reach those in need. They don't allow media in to see the atrocities they have wrecked. They break their own three-hour imposed cease-fire. Yet, the United States still sends them aide? Why? In legalise wouldn't that be called assisted genocide/homicide?
--- Stephanie
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