Killing Palestinians Is TOO Easy: Says Israeli Leadership

I saw a video the other day where some jackass was defending Israel’s “defense” from Hamas showed some Qassam rockets being set up and fired towards Israel. In the video it shows several different footage examples of Hamas garbed men with a row of what looked to be giant roman candles (I am sure they are dangerous and can kill people). But in that same video, it showed Israel’s response with missiles and gunships and their “precision-guided” weapons and I simply could not help but think that the response is so massively “over-the-top” that surely there was something else Hamas was doing… some other weapons, cannons… SOMETHING that could justify what Israel was doing.

I can’t find it.

And before anyone wants to say I am “anti-semitic” or “pro-Palestinian” or whatever, let’s just squash that bullshit right here and now. I don’t give a rat’s ass about either of them and I am not against either of those peoples, either. This is about recognizing an obvious Killing Fields going on over Israel’s desire for more land and control. These bastards are using this for election purposes and have been purposefully starving these people for many years.

The problem lies in the fact that if you watch TV, you are only going to see the Zionistic defense, by and large. It is in their coffer’s desires and directions to do so. The only person I have seen remotely question the deal was the short CNN clip of the boat being rammed and Rachel Maddow saying something (briefly) on her show. The power structure in America doesn’t want you to know the facts and will bombard you with bullshit until you are brainwashed into believing it.

Here are a few notes regarding the facts about this “conflict” and Israel’s “self defense”. I belong to United Progressives based out of Nashville and recently received an email with the following information and links. Please consider joining:

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Some further notes on Gaza:

In June 2008, according to an article in Middle East Online, “sixteen people in southern Israel [had] been killed by rocket or mortar fire from the Gaza Strip “since the start of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, in September 2000, which protested against the long and illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.”

However, in the same period, the Israelis had killed roughly 3770 Palestinians.

That number is derived from a Palestinian Centre for Human Rights fact sheet which says that “the IOF [Israel Occupation Forces] have implemented a systematic policy of extra-judicial executions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).  From the beginning of the Second Intifada, in September 2000, until 30 June, 2008, the IOF carried out 348 extra-judicial execution operations in the OPT.  During these operations, a total of 754 Palestinians were executed, representing 20% of the overall number of Palestinians killed by IOF since the beginning of the Second Intifada. ”

“The victims included 521 targeted persons and 233 civilian bystanders, including 71 children and twenty women. 405 of the victims were executed in the Gaza Strip, and 350 were executed in the West Bank.  In the Gaza Strip, 248 of the victims were targeted people, and 157 were civilian bystanders.  In the West Bank, 274 of the victims were targeted persons and 76 were civilian bystanders.

“IOF claim that extra-judicially executed Palestinians are wanted by the Israeli  security services, and have been ‘targeted’ as they pose serious threats to the national security of the State of Israel.  In addition, IOF utilize a host of  rhetorical terms, such as ’self-defence, military response, Palestinian terrorists/militants’ in order to claim these extra-judicial executions are essential preventative responses in order to ensure the continuing security of Israel.”

Although the current military campaign by Israel is being blamed on the rocket attacks by Hamas, it’s interesting to see elsewhere the speculation that it is really due to the upcoming election for Prime Minister in Israel and the need for politicians to show some resolve in dealing with Hamas.

The election, scheduled for February 10, was set up in order to fill the vacated spot created by the awkward resignation of current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over financial scandal. It pits Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who is running on the Kadima ticket, and Defence Minister Ehud Barak, who heads the Labour Party, against Benjamin Netanyahu, of the opposition party Likud.

Chris Marsden writes in CounterCurrents.org, that  Ms. Livni “has threatened further assassinations of Hamas leaders, warning that “nobody is immune.” “Until now we have shown restraint,” she said. “But today there is no other option than a military operation.”

Defence Minister Ehud Barak, Marsden writes, “threatened a ground invasion Saturday and ruled out any possibility of a cease-fire. ‘For us to be asked to have a cease-fire with Hamas is like asking you to have a cease-fire with Al Qaeda,’” Barak told Fox News. “If boots on the ground will be needed, they will be there.”

“Netanyahu has focused his campaign on calls,” Marsden says, “for an even more aggressive ‘active policy of attack’ against Hamas, accusing the current coalition government of Kadima and Labour of being too “passive.”

“In the long term,” Netanyahu declared, “ the toppling of the Hamas regime is inevitable. In the short term…there are a wide range of possibilities, from doing nothing to doing everything, meaning to conquer Gaza.”

You can a see a lot and get a good understanding of what is happening over there by watching the Fkn News video below (beware of extreme language):

h/t DeProgram