The U.N. says "the world stands disgraced" as Israel shelled another U.N. shelter for Gaza children on July 30, killing dozens. The U.N. Secretary-General calls the attack "outrageous and unjustifiable" and demands "accountability and justice." U.S. officials pledge support for Israel's "right to self-defense" but asks Israel to avoid "the use of disproportionate force" as if there is anything proportionate about killing defenseless children in a U.N. shelter. European leaders manage to say things that will satisfy their anti- occupation publics but will not drive the ire of Israel and its friends. The Arab leadership remains divided and ineffective.This has become a familiar story over the last three weeks since Israel has begun its attack on Gaza on July 8. As a matter of fact, this has been the same story every time Israel has launched attacks on Gaza in 2008-9, 2012 and now in 2014. This shows only one thing: Israeli governments can do "outrageous and unjustifiable" things, the world calls for "accountability and justice" and yet Israel keeps doing the same thing and gets away with it all.Unfortunately, this has been the story of Palestine under Israeli occupation for more than six decades. Here is what General Gur, chief of staff of the Israeli Army, said in a 1978 interview: Is it true [during the March 1978 Israeli invasion of Lebanon] that you bombarded agglomerations [of people] without distinction? I am not one of those people who have a selective memory. Do you think that I pretend not to know what we have done all these years? ... We bombarded Ismailia, Suez, Port Said, and Port Fuad. A million and a half refugees… Since when has the population of South Lebanon become so sacred? They knew perfectly well what the terrorists were doing. After the massacre at Avivim, I had four villages in South Lebanon bombed without authorization. Without making distinctions between civilians and non-civilians? What distinction? What had the inhabitants of Irbid [a large town in northern Jordan, principally Palestinian in population] done to deserve bombing by us? But military communiqués always spoke of returning fire and of counterstrikes against terrorist objectives. Please be serious. Did you not know that the entire valley of the Jordan had been emptied of its inhabitants as a result of the war of attrition? Then you claim that the population ought to be punished? Of course, and I have never had any doubt about that. When I authorized Yanouch [responsible for the Lebanese operation] to use aviation, artillery and tanks [in the invasion], I knew exactly what I was doing. It has now been 30 years, from the time of our Independence War until now, that we have been fighting against the civilian [Arab] population which inhabited the villages and towns, and every time that we do it, the same question gets asked: should we or should we not strike at civilians? [Al-Hamishmar, May 10, 1978; quoted in Edward Said, "The Question of Palestine," pp. xi-xii) The answer to that question is well known.Not much has changed since 1978, or 1967, or 1948. Since July 8, 2014, Israeli warplanes and mortar attacks have killed hundreds of children and women before the watchful eyes of the world.Over time, though, the occupation has widened and deepened. Palestinians have seen their lands taken away from them, their families destroyed, their olive trees uprooted, their homes demolished, their children killed in cold blood. International law, U.N. resolutions, sanctions, suspension of diplomatic relations, isolation, humanitarian concerns, court decisions, public condemnation, boycott ... None of it has been able to end the occupation.This time around, the Netanyahu government seems to have the blessings of those among Arabs who would go so far as to praise Netanyahu for his bloody fight against Hamas.In the name of destroying political Islam, they are giving a carte blanche to all violations of international and humanitarian law and turning a blind eye to the carnage in Gaza. They hope this will rid them of Hamas and similar political movements.This is a miscalculation. By killing Palestinians, Israel and its backers are making political movements like Hamas stronger. Killing children on beaches, schools, mosques and U.N. houses will only make Palestinian resistance more legitimate, resolute and organized with a global outreach.The "official" international system has failed to protect the Palestinians under occupation. But this is no excuse for us not to work with even more determination to bring justice to all.