I’ve been refraining from writing anything on this particular topic for a variety of reasons but, Israel is getting ridiculously out of control. I’ve stayed relatively up to date on the status of the invasion and occupation of Gaza and things are not getting better. I had made comments about it on some of my friends’ statuses on Facebook throughout the week and posted a video from Russia Today about it.

My position on this is easy. Israel is the aggressor and should remove its military forces from Gaza immediately. There is not a dime’s worth of valid justification for what they have done. It is ridiculous to say that it is okay to kill a few hundred people in an attempt to eliminate a handful of terrorists. Gaza is not a nation; they have no army or navy. There is no means of defense against the bullying force of Israel. The people of Gaza are in fact fish in a barrel–there is no where for them to go and they are innocent.

Israel has now bombed a UN school. Does no one else find this rather insane? The UN is even reporting that there were no militants in the school! So, seriously, what the hell? You can’t just say there was gunfire coming from the direction where a school is and then bomb it knowing that there are innocent children inside.

The world is protesting against Israel’s actions. Opposition is heating up throughout Latin America. The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is receiving protests from the German people against her support of Israel. The Canadians are in protest. And my hometown of NY had a 25,000-strong protest against Israel’s murderous actions. This is not death by forest fires or famine or drought or anything else natural. This is a completely preventable disaster: stop dropping bombs.

To justify Israel’s actions is about as logical as blaming a bystander who gets killed in a sudden gun fight. The fault is not of the bystander but, of the morons who are shooting at each other. Except in this case, one side has firecrackers while the other has bazookas.

Washington D.C. is–to no surprise–defending Israel. And why wouldn’t they? Where do you think Israel got the bombs from? Without the United States government providing Israel with the greatest firepower in the region, this kind of destruction would not even be possible. Israel would have to think twice before launching a completely one-sided attack.

When an individual with a bomb strapped to his body kills 30 people. We call him a terrorist. When a government drops a bomb and kills 30 people, we have the audacity to say it was just or understandable or okay. After all, this is what happens in war! That kind of logic is asinine. Governments are not above the law. Israel is a terrorist. Are we going to see Israel on the no-fly list now?

Israel: get out of Gaza now. If you want to prevent the “rockets” from entering, borrow one our missile defense systems. If you already have one–which I’m pretty sure you do–you might want to press the “on” button. Stop killing the innocent.