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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 21. november 2012 / Timeline November 21, 2012
Version 3.520. November 2012, 22. November 2012
11/21/2012
Minutes ago...cease-fire
By: Cecilie Surasky, Boston Jewish Voice for Peace.
As I write this, a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas
has just taken effect. We hope and pray that it will hold. Our most
urgent task at Jewish Voice for Peace has been to pressure Israel
to end its overwhelming assault on the people of Gaza. It has been
an assault that serves the political interests of Israeli
politicians, with civilians on both sides dearly paying the
price.
But we all know that even after the last bomb or rocket has
fallen—hopefully soon— the 1.7 million Palestinians
living trapped in Gaza will still face the daily structural
violence of occupation. Israel will still control most of their
borders and limit the resources coming in and out. There will still
be extra-judicial assassinations, undrinkable water, artificial
shortages of food and medical supplies. And there will still be the
massive disproportionate killing: since 2006, over 2,880
Palestinians of Gaza and 45 Israelis have died in fighting in the
region.
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