This commentary is from the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, my translation...
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Startpage / Debates 2014-07-18
The Gaza Strip is an Israeli prison (Commentary in Swedish)
1.8 million human beings in the Gaza Strip are the prisoners of Israel. The army and air force of Israel can at any time bomb and kill the Gaza citizens without the prisoner guards being held accountable. To ask the prisoners to now go back to their cells and forget about all the destruction and their 205 dead and 1700 wounded, most of them women and children, is illogical.
The Palestinians have been negotiating since 1994. And what has come of it? New settlements, a new wall engulfing Palestinian land, humiliation at abhorrent road blocks, house demolitions, extra-judicial killings and arrests.
Iraeli apologiess, that in the hunt for terrorists they just happen to kill, arrest and humiliate the Palestinians, seems to be accepted by the media. Palestinians will never accept this and that Israel "just happen to" kill children. Israel has bombed Gaza with three thousand tons of missiles and killed indiscriminantly. The evil lies in the occupation. As long as the occupation persists so will the resistance to it. Free yourselves from the violent grip of the occupation and give the Palestinians their rights.
To cry anti-semitism each and every time criticism is directed towards Israel is just a bad excuse to make journalists back off. Israel puts forward new demands during peace negotiations with the Palestinians, the latest of which being that the Palestinians have to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. That though would demand Israel behave civilized and honorable as a representative for the Jewish religion, and not as executioners and prisoner guards. As long as the occupation persists the prisoner revolt will too.
Nael Touqan
Palestinska Föreningen i Stockholm