The siege of Gaza has been going on for around 18 months.Before the air attack was launched two weeks ago life was already intolerable for the Palestinian population of Gaza.

The air,sea borne and land invasion of Gaza has compounded the very many crimes the Israeli politicians and military have committed against civilians.Large numbers of women and children blown up or shot down.
Clinics,ambulances,hospitals and mosques attacked with missiles and shells.Apartment blocks flattened.

President Bush was recently described accurately as a" bloodthirsty moron". The same description can be applied to the Israeli foreign minister,a nonentity called Tzipi Livni, who said a few days ago
"There is no humanitarian crisis in the [Gaza] strip and therefore no need for a humanitarian truce".

Israel is an illegal occupying power in Gaza and the West Bank. For decades it has imprisoned,humiliated,oppressed and massacred Palestinians.

Its behaviour these past few weeks reeks of racisism, barbarism and criminality....and mass murder.

Actually the behaviour of the Israeli state will come as no surprise to anyone who has followed events in the Middle East.

Israel has consistently portrayed the Palestinians as savage beasts.They have used laws,the military,education and the media to dehumanise the Palestinian people.

You have to ask the question what rights do Palestinians have under the rule of Israel? The answer is as far as I can see is the right to be kicked around,bullied and blown up.

Israel has kept international reporters out of Gaza for good reason.It will not allow international peacekeepers in Gaza for similar reasons.War crimes are being committed against a civilian population by the Israeli war machine and it is less embarrassing for the criminals to have no witnesses.

"The executioners face is always well hidden"

There will be a huge national demonstration in London on saturday the 10th January to protest at the slaughter in Gaza.
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