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days: 875 Palestinians killed in Gaza (236 children and 100 women) and 3695 injured
Israel's Failure to Learn - Nir Rosen
When George Bush, the US president, first entered the White House as the commander-in-chief in 2001, Palestinians were being killed in the al-Aqsa intifada.
Eight years later, as Bush prepares to leave office, Israel is carrying out one of the largest massacres in its 60-year occupation of Palestine.
The US, then and now, strongly backs Israel's offensive, justifying it as being, in fact, defensive.
An Israeli general recently threatened to use military force to set Gaza back decades in much the same language used before the invasion of Lebanon in 2006.
But despite the Israeli devastation of Lebanon, Hezbollah emerged victorious and the Shia resistance and social movement emerged a hero to the Arab world.
Israel is about to make the same mistake with Hamas.
Its notion of a truce with Hamas was that the Palestinians would quietly accept the siege. Israel would deny them the basic means of survival, let alone the basic means to create a functioning society.
If the Palestinians attempted to resist, they would be crushed.
As in Lebanon, Israel should have learned years ago that military might cannot crush Palestinian resistance movements.
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2008/12/20081230122143645275.html
http://www.adl.org/images/arab_anti_semitism/gaza_cartoons/gaza_carrtoons5.jpg
http://msayed2004.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/western_logic_by_latuff2.jpg
(Cartoon in Arabic translates to: "Israeli holocaust in Gaza"
I find it disgraceful that a live extermination of a race of people can happen live on t.v as the rest of the world gets their popcorn ready to watch.
