Chronicles of a massacre: Cast Lead

Well, I do not know what to tell you. This year started in a terrible way. It started with "Cast Iron". Do you know what that is? If we look at German traditions it is a kind of "game" people spend time with a New Year's Eve in Germany. They melt figures made of lead in a spoon on candle flame and then cast that into water. Different shapes are formed that are then interpreted to see how the next year is going to be for the person who cast it. This year, Israel cast lead for Gaza / Palestine claiming that they did so to end the rocket launching from Gaza on Israeli territory. The little thing they always forgot to mention is WHY there have been rockets launched at it.
They started on December 28th the whole with bombarding it from air, ground and the sea for 8 days and then started a ground invasion with armours, special forces, etc. Please remember that what they are attacking is a heavily populated region where about 1.4 Million people are living in a strip of land with an area of 360 sq. km. Most of these people are refugees that have fled from or have been expelled what is called now Israel upon and after it has been founded 1984. They say they are attacking Hamas militants but not the Palestinian people. Then they say it is Hamas's fault to be "based" among civilians using them as human shields. Have you ever heard of Resistance or partisans? I never knew that these have separate camps and have brigades etc. These resistants are form the people of Gaza and a part of it. So where should they go in this small peace of earth? So, now imagine this whole infernal war machinery acting against such a heavily populated area. What would be the outcome? Surely a catastrophe, especially because Gaza is under siege since 1.5 years with food, medicine and fuel being only allowed to be delivered at a minimum causing electricity cuts because of lack of fuel, causing great hunger to the extent that most inhabitants are only being fed by international aids and causing a terrible shortage of medical care equipment, medicines, etc. Now, there is no food getting in because of military operations, most inhabitants are without water and then this hell. What is the result so far? More than 660 killed and 2950 wounded, and those are mostly civilians and not militants. I do not have to count the details of the massacre so far as this is too long and too bloody. The worst example I can tell is bombarding three schools of the UNRWA that have been marked as UN sites and that have been communicated to the Israeli army that refugees are taking refuge in them. What does that mean? This means that they are telling the people of Gaza that there is no place to take refuge at, not even UN buildings. It tells the UN also how much Israel respects it as well the same way it has been respecting UN resolutions and International Law so far. Here is John Ging, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza talking about this assault and about the human situation there for the moment.

What is making me so angry and much worse than these massacres itself is that nobody is doing anything against it really. They are taking their time negotiating truce and other details. The USA hindered a UN security council resolution because it was too harsh against Israel and worse is that almost no Arab leader has opened his mouth and condemned these crimes? Where is their dignity? They apparently don't have any left. It took 8 days of assault for the Emir of Qatar to condemn the war while most others are still shutting up and watching. No one of them dared expel the Israeli ambassador in their country. Only Mauritania withdrew their ambassador as a protest (but did not expel the Israeli one). Venezuela expels the Israeli ambassador today as a protest against these atrocities and this is the strongest reaction on that so far in the world while Egypt or Jordan did not do it yet and the Palestinian Authority of Ramallah is still keeping vivid ties with Israel. What a sad farce is this?

Is there any hope to stop this massacre? is there anyway to help these people under fire? The only thing that can be done is to go to demonstrations against the war and against the positions of the governments that are doing nothing. All are waiting for Hamas to be "finished" and not caring about how many civilian Palestinians die. There is no sense of shame in this world anymore. This is disgusting. I have a terrible feeling of paralysis, frustration and disgust. If this year is going to be like those horrible figures of lead are being cast, I don't want it.

Dissolve the UN and its Security Cancel. It is of no use.