re: Justified Genocide
hello is this a personal grudge session or a google race. No winners in this tragedy
" Do you believe a country has the right to defend itself and then impose conditions that will make despots think twice, maybe ten times before they consider attacking again as the pain and damage of doing so will be more than they can bare?"
5 women and children despots killed ...
5 women and children despots killed ...
There is little controversy about the facts: last Thursday, in an IDF action in Rafah, at least eight Palestinians were killed (the number will probably climb, since some of the wounded were severely hurt). Five of those killed were woman and children. Almost fifty people were wounded - many of them children who had just left their school after lessons.
The event took place on the "Philadelphi" axis, a narrow strip of land designed to separate the Gaza area from neighboring Egypt. The Palestinians dig tunnels under the strip in order to move people, weapons and goods. The IDF endeavors to prevent it.
Thursday, the IDF sent a bulldozer, guarded by tanks and armored troop-carriers, to block the tunnels.
According to the army version, fire was opened on the bulldozer and the force. The brigade commander gave a tank commander permission to fire shells at the "sources of fire". All in all, five shells were fired at the densely populated refugee camp, including "flanchette" shells which spread thousands of deadly steel arrows, an especially inhuman weapon the use of which is forbidden by international law. The IDF suffered no casualties.
The army alleges that among the Palestinians killed were three "armed men" who had shot at the bulldozer. The Palestinians contend that none of them was a known member of a fighting organization. (This is not necessarily a contradiction: nowadays any Palestinian is liable to open fire on the occupation forces.)
The Palestinians speak about a "massacre". Israeli spokespersons say they regret the deaths of the children. The Americans asked Israel to exercise restraint. "The world" was silently reproachful.
This was not an exceptional occurrence. It has become almost routine.
Who is to blame? Let's try to compose a list. ......coninues at..... http://www.gush-shalom.org/archives/article216.html
