The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use lethal weapons of the modern battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian population is a final phase of a decades long campaign to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians.
Using attack jets, helicopter and naval gun ships to bomb and shell densely crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment buildings, mosques, UN buildings, and ambulances, to attack a population that has no air force, navy, army, no heavy weapons, artillery units, and no mechanized armor, is not a war, it's a massacre and it's murder.
Palestinian dead: 160; Israeli dead: five; in eight days.
Why would Gazans start firing these largely ineffective rockets? After a relative calm period
Israeli troops murdered a 23 yr. old retarded man that had wandered too close to the fence that imprisons 1.6 million Gazans, two days later they shot a 12 year old boy playing soccer in the head and wounded 20 of his companions. A few days later they assassinated the military head of Hamas.
Let`s imagine us here in P.G. being under siege for five years; only enough food permitted in to keep us alive; as one Israeli politician said, "Let`s keep them on a diet", and everything else that we could need or want was severely restricted.
Would we not rise up against this murderous regime? You bet we would and to hell with the consequences. Our oppressors would be only too happy if we kept our heads down for the most part only provoking us every few years to elicit a response to their atrocities and thus giving them a reason to try out their latest weaponry on us.
Eddie Johnson
Prince George
