I have to say that another recent strike, this time evidently from the air, against a UN school in Gaza housing Palestinian refugees (10 dead, 35 wounded in the initial reports), along with the taking out of Gazas only power plant are clearly extraordinary acts. The locations of the UN schools are well known to the Israelis, as was that of the power plant. Mistakes are inconceivable. This has to be a full-scale war against the civilian population of Gaza itself, a punishment for its support of Hamas over the years (though obviously not all Gazans support that organization). And that in turn is a crime, pure and simple -- and a scandal. Moreover, this history of air war suggests that air strikes do not break the will of populations or their support for organizations, but such attacks will create a future that no one, not Gazans, not Israelis could possibly want -- and future generations of hatred and revenge. Tom nytimes/2014/08/04/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-conflict.html
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:46:41 +0000