On the Israel-Hamas Conflict: Give Peace a Chance!

Reference to BBC News Middle East report: 

"Gaza crisis: Israeli air strikes hit Hamas HQ"

Give peace a chance! I'm afraid that all stakeholders in the Israel-Hamas conflict, including the US, NATO, the Arab League, Muslim and Christian groups, the media, and ordinary observers do not think about peace. Let us not nurture a (future) generation of haters. 

As I see it, the ongoing war will go on to become an endless Israel-Hamas tit-for-tat. Recent US State Department call is one-sided, as always favourable to Israel, instead of calling for an end of the conflict and promoting the possibility that Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace side by side.

What we have is an established state (Israel) with defence capabilities supplied by the US and a political movement (Hamas) with no capacity for the self-defense of their legitimate aspirations and territory. 

The world and the whole of humanity are losers in this tragedy.

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But there seems to be a tension within the patron-client relationship between the US and Israel. Obama must be having a hard time at this time, dealing with stubborn Israel and planning the US Middle East policy as well as its 'pivot to Asia' strategy.

And here's Obama, a master politician doublespeaker, publicly speaking about US stance in the Middle East and its relationship with Israel:

It would have been interesting if he went on to discuss his own interpretation of the history of the conflict. We need actions. 

Meanwhile, Syrians are also crying for justice and freedom — those states from the US to Turkey to Saudi Arabia and Qatar to the EU, including Denmark — have rhetorically spoken about freeing Syria. Their passivity on the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflicts is also telling about their real stance towards Syria.