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Old 01-18-2009, 05:03 AM   #1 (permalink)
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So what was achieved by Israel in Gaza?

Over 1100 dead including almost 400 children, touching 5000 wounded, 1 in 40 of 1.5m people displaced.

UN schools, hospitals and compounds bombed or shelled. One particular incident, white phosphorous shells, only permitted internationally as smoke rounds to cover troop movements, fired into a UN compound with over 700 refugees trying to find sanctuary in there.

Israel's case, no matter what it was before the action started, has ZERO traction now with the rest of the world, save the US. Why is the US exempt?

Why? Because your media is hobbled and controlled in its willingness to see Israel do wrong, and even as those blinkers are removed, its ability to effectively question Israeli representatives is wildly restricted.


What has Israel or the US gained?

The rockets continue.
Hamas still exists.

Not one of Israel's main objectives reached, save a few instantly-replaced leaders killed at the price of all those dead?

So at what looks like the end, at least temporarily, of the assault on Gaza we're back to where we were at the beginning.

Israel does not recognise the legitimately elected leaders of the Palestinians as pursuing any 'legitimate interests' of the Palestinian people and so refuses to negotiate.

The 18-month long siege of Gaza (an act of war and against a civilian population, a war crime) continues.

Egypt has agreed to help block the supply of easily assembled rockets, just as they were before the current actions - blowing up tunnels and arresting militants... (sugar and potassium nitrate (Piss!) for the rocket engines, cordite and shrapnel for a payload... that'll be stopping soon)

Square one, except Hamas are now aiming at population centres purposefully as witnessed by the increase in death and injuries from the rockets over these last few weeks.

The rest of the world waits for Israel and the US to grown up and start acting like responsible states and powers, rather than petulant children with the bigger stick.
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