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The Gaza Conflict: Causes and Consequences of Israeli Aggression


The Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip, which “nominally” began on Dec. 27, 2009 and “actually” began much earlier, has entered the annals of Middle East wars as one of the most devastating episodes likely to be indelibly imprinted on the political landscape of the region. The aggression resulted in the killing of 1,300 Palestinians, including 700 civilians, and the destruction of the infrastructure of Gaza Strip. Contrary to the Western media use of the concepts of “War on Gaza,” we deliberately use the concept of “aggression” as it accurately describes what the Israelis have done in Gaza. Western media used the concepts of “War on Iraq,” “War on Lebanon” and “War on Gaza” to project the image of a war in which two parties fight each other on equal footing, and to avoid identifying the perpetrator of the “war,” that is the aggressor. The deliberate avoidance of the use of the concept of aggression in the cases of Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza, should to be compared with the deliberate use by Western politicians and media of the same concept to describe the Russian responses to the Georgian military attacks on South Ossetia in August 2008.


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