Uri Avnery on Gaza

Posted by mcm

January 7, 2009

Here is yet another indispensable analysis, which handily refutes the many glib lies trotted out to justify Israel’s assault on Gaza.
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Molten Lead
Uri Avnery’s Column
1/03/09

JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, Aljazeeraâ’s Arabic channel was
reporting on events in Gaza. Suddenly the camera was
pointing upwards towards the dark sky. The screen was
pitch black. Nothing could be seen, but there was a sound to
be heard: the noise of airplanes, a frightening, a terrifying droning.

It was impossible not to think about the tens of thousands of Gazan
children who were hearing that sound at that moment, cringing with
fright, paralyzed by fear, waiting for the bombs to fall.

“ISRAEL MUST defend itself against the rockets that are
terrorizing our Southern towns,” the Israeli spokesmen
explained. “Palestinians must respond to the killing of their
fighters inside the Gaza Strip,” the Hamas spokesmen declared.

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