Needless Gaza Conflict Says Foreign Policy Expert and Former President, Jimmy Carter
| For background and insight into the current hostilities in Gaza, read ex-president Jimmy Carter's op-ed piece in the Washington Post. He minces no words as he writes about the unnecessary war in Gaza. Carter speaks from personal involvement and as an expert observer about the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian-Hamas-US situation that escalated into this needless conflict. Some excerpts: "...After visiting Sderot last April and seeing the serious psychological damage caused by the rockets that had fallen in that area, my wife, Rosalynn, and I declared their launching from Gaza to be inexcusable and an act of terrorism. Although casualties were rare (three deaths in seven years), the town was traumatized by the unpredictable explosions. About 3,000 residents had moved to other communities, and the streets, playgrounds and shopping centers were almost empty... "We knew that the 1.5 million inhabitants of Gaza were being starved, as the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food had found that acute malnutrition in Gaza was on the same scale as in the poorest nations in the southern Sahara, with more than half of all Palestinian families eating only one meal a day." |
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