Commentary: People Who Trample on Human Rights Should Be Condemned

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Commentary: People Who Trample on Human Rights Should Be Condemned

A humanitarian disaster is threatening civilian lives in Palestinian cities and villages where Israeli troops ride roughshod over the human rights of Palestinians.

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A humanitarian disaster is threatening civilian lives in Palestinian cities and villages where Israeli troops ride roughshod over the human rights of Palestinians.

Innocent civilians have been massacred; men have been arrested; houses have been destroyed; women, children and the elderly have been made homeless; and there is no food or water.

In face of such a terrible and horrendous situation occurring in the West Bank, people can not help but raise an outcry against the Israeli government to cease and desist and stop trampling on humanity!

People around the world will not forget the inhuman treatment and massacre of the Jewish people during World War II. The Jewish people still bear the scars of their suffering. As it was pointed out by a Jewish leader, the cruel treatment of Jews "can be forgiven, but not forgotten." But what is now going on in the West Bank means that the Israeli government's actions are no different than their previous persecutors. Some seem to have forgotten the pain as soon as the wounds healed. Palestinians in this region are experiencing the same suffering the Jewish people experienced during World War II. This too is also a sad part of human history.

Yet today's humanitarian catastrophe facing the Palestinians is nothing but the continuation of Israel's policy of collective punishment and retaliation against some individual Palestinians extreme actions against Israel. Israeli troops used to demolish arab houses,raze woods, block roads or isolate whole villages, forcing pregnant women to gave birth to children on the road and cause patients to die for being deprived access to a hospital.

Ignoring the international community's repeated warnings, the Israeli government has acted with indifference to Palestinians and have violated international laws and principles that protect human rights. The Israeli troops on Monday even waged attacks on the refugee camp in Jenin, creating incredibly horrible scenes of death and destruction and went far in their complete disregard of human life.

The Israeli government has become more abusive and violent, attempting to break their will and resistance to Israel's illegal occupation. The Israeli government however hasn't realized that the tougher it treats the Palestinian people, the greater Palestinians' hatred toward Israel grows. In the long run, Israel can only face a deteriorating security situation, and it will never force the Palestinian people to accept its illegal occupation.

Neither did the Israel government expect that its refusal to allow international human rights and aide groups' to investigate the Jenin camp would arouse the anger of people around the world.

The United Nations top human rights body condemned Israel on Monday for its "mass murders" of Palestinians and demanded it end its military offensive in the occupied territories. If the Israel government doesn't stop its outrages at once, it will earn itself eternal infamy in history.

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