[Peace-discuss] Why Israel killed 2,000 (with US permission)

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

There's some indication that 'Iron Dome' may be a flying Potemkin village - profitable for the usual 'defense contractors' and useful for propagandists in the Israeli & US governments but neither necessary nor effective against the largely home-made rockets from Gaza.

See now Mark Perry, "Gaza's Bottle Rockets: Why Hamas' Arsenal Wasn't Worth a War," in the current  edition of the conservative journal Foreign Affairs, Published by the Council on Foreign Relations, August 3, 2014: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141698/mark-perry/gazas-bottle-rockets


On Aug 8, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Democracy Now forgot about Democracy long ago - they parrot Hamas
> propaganda just like you do!  When you meet your maker, then you will
> have to attone for your sins since you fancy yourself some sort of
> expert on religion - unguided rockets are a terrorist weapon - they
> are only just aimed in the general direction of the people you want to
> kill and anything that gets hit gets killed - Iron Dome has
> effectively shielded them but it can not do so with 100% certainty
> forever - the Israelis know that and so does any other fool who knows
> what rockets do.  Suggest you learn.,  Amy Goodman and her pal
> Gonzalez really pretend to be journalists since they never actually
> dig out facts that might disagree with their preformed opinions.
> 
> Roger
> 
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:20 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> http://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/7/a_hideous_atrocity_noam_chomsky_on
>> 
>> As high Israeli officials concede, Hamas had observed the previous ceasefire
>> for 19 months. The previous episode of "mowing the lawn" was in November
>> 2012. There was a ceasefire. The ceasefire terms were that Hamas would not
>> fire rockets--what they call rockets--and Israel would move to end the
>> blockade and stop attacking what they call militants in Gaza. Hamas lived up
>> to it. Israel concedes that.
>> 
>> In April of this year, an event took place which horrified the Israeli
>> government: A unity agreement was formed between Gaza and the West Bank,
>> between Hamas and Fatah. Israel has been desperately trying to prevent that
>> for a long time. There's a background we could talk about, but it's
>> important. Anyhow, the unity agreement came. Israel was furious. They got
>> even more upset when the U.S. more or less endorsed it, which is a big blow
>> to them. They launched a rampage in the West Bank.
>> 
>> What was used as a pretext was the brutal murder of three settler teenagers.
>> There was a pretense that they were alive, though they knew they were dead.
>> That allowed a huge--and, of course, they blamed it right away on Hamas. They
>> have yet to produce a particle of evidence, and in fact their own highest
>> leading authorities pointed out right away that the killers were probably
>> from a kind of a rogue clan in Hebron, the Qawasmeh clan, which turns out
>> apparently to be true. They've been a thorn in the sides of Hamas for years.
>> They don't follow their orders.
>> 
>> But anyway, that gave the opportunity for a rampage in the West Bank,
>> arresting hundreds of people, re-arresting many who had been released,
>> mostly targeted on Hamas. Killings increased. Finally, there was a Hamas
>> response: the so-called rocket attacks. And that gave the opportunity for
>> "mowing the lawn" again.
>> 
>> ###
>> 
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