As long as world leadership - the U.S.A and Britain - remain silent as Israelis deprive Gazans of the basic necessities of life in the futile attempt to bring them into submission, Israel will continue to take the green light. Peoples deprived of their basic rights will fight back with whatever little they have -- be it stones or rockets.

Just imagine.. as the BBC noted this morning; ten million Palestinians are exiled worldwide, uprooted from their villages for the creation of Israel. And today 1.5 million walled in Gazans are being bombed by Israel, the oppressor. Israel repeats the pogroms. Wall them in, starve them and those who survive will be bombed.

What an atrocity!!.

The rockets that were launched killed one Israeli.

Long ago Jews maintained the life of one Jew equals 1000 Palestinians. So I guess the bombings won't stop. Ehud Barak told BBC.."we'll keep fighting until the rockets stop"  I suppose that means killing all 1.5 million Gazans.

But the Wall of Shame under which the Jews stole Palestinian lands and the bombings are mere fig leaves.

What is at play here is the Oil curse.

Unfortunately for Gazans, natural gas lies off their coast..reported to be billions in reserve. Two years ago, (reported by The Times, UK), Israel gave a lease to British Energy- valued at $4 billion - without Palestinians having any input, so Hamas put the kabosh on it.

Israelis' error of judgement and greed is setting up for a repeat of history.

 

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

Could someone please point the way to the vomitorium? I feel my lunch coming up.

BooMan, you just can't show this kind of bias and still claim to be unbiased.

Helena points out the following well-documented facts:

"Israel violated the tahdi'eh (ceasefire) numerous times throughout its six-month term, often lethally. Hamas violated it only a few times, and worked strenuously (and often, though not always, successfully) to persuade the other Palestinian groups in Gaza to abide by it, too.

"In November, one month before the expiry of the mutually agreed tahdi'eh, Israel sent a sizeable ground force into southern Gaza to destroy suspected tunnels there [note that they were "suspected" tunnels. Also be aware that there are tunnels, and that they are used primarily to smuggle food, medical supplies, fuel, and other humanitarian goods from Egypt into Gaza - H].

"That was the big violation Haaretz was referring to today, when its editorial writers noted that,

      'Israel's violation of the lull in November expedited the deterioration that gave birth to the war of yesterday.'

And here is the real meat of the article:

"In the realm of economic policy, Willem Buiter and others have coined the term "cognitive capture" to describe how financiers managed to persuade regulators and legislators to look at the financial world almost wholly from their viewpoint.

"It strikes me it's also a good term to describe the way pro-Israeli organizations in the US have almost completely succeeded in having the country's commentators and politicians look at the Middle East almost wholly through their eyes."

Helena goes on to comment on "the degree to which those 'captured', or brainwashed, may...have actually internalized the messages of those seeking to 'capture' them. It also fails to capture the degree to which the powerful forces doing the 'capturing' succeed in their capture/brainwashing task ab initio by sustaining powerful campaigns to ensure that no-one who even questions their mindset or is capable of bringing an independent, querying mind to their task is even allowed into the positions of influence that they seek to control."

Please read the entire article, and take a look at the other valuable pieces on her blog. Helena is a fantastic resource on the Middle East.