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Over the past several weeks Israels constant bombing of innocent civilians in Gaza, Palestine has become a front page story. And while many people cling to their own biases and personal beliefs relative to whether or not they view Israels actions justified
what is concerning is how so few people actually understand what led to Israel turning Gaza into a death zone. Well the Israeli government lied to start a war.
In June of this year three Israeli teens went missing. The Israeli government knew they were dead but put a gag order on Israeli news organizations so they were unable to report this. They flooded Palestinians towns with Israeli military(source), arrested hundreds of Palestinians including people let go in prior political agreements (source), and looted their homes of their valuables (source) all under the pretext of looking for the missing teenagers. Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu said there was unequivocal proof that Hamas was responsible for what he called kidnappings (source) and the US media reported it exactly as he said it. If you were an American you were told by the US media via the Israeli government that Hamas kidnapped three teenagers (source). Netanyahu said he would show the evidence for the world to see (source)
days and weeks went by with no evidence but plenty of military actions against the Palestinian people.
Netanyahu incited violence against Palestinians and said that the Palestinian people will pay for these three kids getting kidnapped (source). And thats exactly what he got. Over 10 Palestinians were killed by the IDF or by Israeli citizens in the coming days; one of them was burned alive by six Jews (source). One Palestinian American teenager was filmed getting nearly beaten to death by the Israeli Defense Forces for simply not being Jewish (source). There are to this day gangs of Jewish Israelis roaming the streets in Israel and Palestine looking to harm Palestinians just because of their ethnicity (source). The message was you hurt one of ours and were going make you pay the price.
For over a week the Israeli government bombed Gaza unprovoked. No missiles came from Gaza the Israeli government said it was retaliating for the death of three Israeli teenagers who they said Hamas was responsible for killing. Over a week of bombing Palestinian civilians in Gaza (source). When asked for proof that Hamas was involved this Israeli colonel said Israel didnt need proof (source) they were simply going to bomb Palestine into the next century. Operation Protective Edge began on July 7th (source) for what Israel called a response to rockets attacking Israel. In reality Hamas was really just retaliating against Israeli aggression that led to the murder of Palestinian civilians.
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/26/israel-started-this-war-and-killed-1000-based-on-a-very-big-lie/