by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: While the MSM focuses on the claim that 3 Israelis have been killed during this Israeli attack on Gaza, the fact is, many children are being killed AGAIN by the IDF. Go here to see photos of Palestinian children being rushed to the hospital during the attacks.
UPDATE: Life imitates art
“Jihad Misharawi, a BBC Arabic journalist who lives in Gaza, carries the body of his 11-month old son, Omar, through al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.” Information Clearinghouse
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Back in 2008 on election night actually, the IDF violated the cease fire agreement that Palestine had been adhering to and they killed 6 Hamas members in an openly aggressive unwarranted attack. They knew that the liberal left in America would be watching Obama’s victory with unwavering concern. The resulting attack by Israel labeled “Operation Cast Lead” went on for 20 days while Obama was picking the drapes for the oval office and “W” was looking for a U-Haul to fill with his various trinkets.
This year Israel started planning Operation Pillar of Defense prior to the election. But now, in “response” to all those terrible homemade rockets from Gaza, the Israeli army is gathering at the borders for a full on invasion of “the largest open air prison in the world”, Gaza.
This was all started when the Israelis assassinated an Hamas military leader, Ahmed al-Jabari, with a rocket when he drove through a populated section of Gaza City.
Israeli troops massed on the Gaza border last night, poised for a possible ground invasion as Israel launched a major military operation it said was designed “to severely impair the command and control chain of the Hamas leadership, as well as its terrorist infrastructure.”
Military sources told The Independent that a ground invasion was “a distinct possibility”. The army has deployed extra infantry units near the Gaza border, halted major exercises, cancelled soldiers’ leave and mobilised some reserve forces.
The opening salvo of Operation Pillar of Cloud was the pinpoint assassination by missile of the Hamas military commander, Ahmed al-Jabari, as he drove through Gaza City, followed by aerial attacks against targets throughout the Hamas-controlled enclave. At least 10 Palestinians, including civilians, were reported dead.” Independent
The act itself is beyond criminal. You don’t just get to assassinate military leaders of other countries when you want to. Well, unless of course you happen to be Israel or the United States or France or Britain. Then of course, you do.
Again, this little skirmish started the exact same way Cast Lead did back in 2008. Israel shot and killed two Palestinians in Gaza and then invaded with bulldozers to knock down some more homes.
As expected, Palestinians responded by firing a rocket at an IDF jeep and then Israel got to play the perpetual victim card claiming they were attacked so they launched their well planned Operation Pillar of Defense.
Whether or not this latest attack by the Israelis on yet another of their neighbors (they have attacked Lebanon AND Syria recently) produces as many casualties as Operation Cast Lead (1,400 with over half of them women and children) is beside the point. This is yet another example of the brutal and endless violence and aggression being exerted by Israel in the already unstable Middle East.
They are constantly throwing gasoline on fires over there and this is just one more example. Their program of systematic genocide of the Palestinians is deplorable.
Of course, don’t expect NATO or Hillary Clinton to demand a no-fly zone over Israel to keep them from killing another 1,400 people in Gaza.
And CERTAINLY don’t expect Obama’s apologists who just voted for him again to come out and demand their hero-God to do anything about this. After all, they’re just Palestinians, right?
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