Opinion: 'Western hypocrisy towards Gaza's breakout is stomach-turning'
Author and journalist Jonathan Cook says that Palestinian civilians in Gaza have faced repeated rampages from Israel decade after decade, "producing far more suffering, but have never elicited a fraction of the concern currently being expressed by western politicians or publics".
He says that Palestinians in Gaza's strikes against Israel are "vaguely comparable to the savagery Palestinians in Gaza have faced repeatedly since they were entombed in a cage more than 15 years ago, when Israel began its blockade by land, sea and air in 2007".
Much of the analysis, according to Cook, has distracted from the real lessons in the events, which are that "no one cared" when Palestinians were subjected to a blockade, starvation diets, targeted by snipers and bombed.
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