To Bearded Bruce

The Israeli military command have always said a great deal of guff after committing the most terrible of war crimes.

They have blown up several schools during the past week or so but I remember other Israeli attacks and massacres from Qana to the refugee camps of Shatilla and Sabra.

Time and time again in other invasions the Israelis have dropped their massive bombs on women and children or have strafed fleeing refugees with missiles or have stood guard while their fascist allies have gone in to do the wet work with knives and bayonets and grenades.
I dont know how you can begin to defend or justify this crew of well armed,well funded and ever so well spoken baby killers.

This time around the mass murder is coming into our homes via non Israeli channels and no wonder that the Israeli military is so keen to keep coverage controlled and sanitised. The world is seeing picture after picture of scores of babies,infants,young kids , teenagers and old ladies maimed and murdered bu US made and Israeli delivered bombs,shells and missiles.

Let us not forget that these civilians are being penned in like cattle to be slaughtered .They do not have anywhere to go.Israel even controls the sea and beaches and is more than prepared to drop a shell or two onto civilians on the beaches of Gaza.And only last week an Israeli gunboat rammed a cabin cruiser the size of my bathroom laden with...yes wait for it, medical supplies for the victims of the Israeli Defence Force [by the way that in itself is a bit of a misnomerisn't it].

Gaza is a giant prison of over a million people and its borders are sealed ,and have been sealed for 18 months by Israel contrary to international law.Israel has been waging collective punishment against a civilian population.

Hey, but this is nothing new! The state of Israel was founded on the ethnic clearances of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people many of whom ended up in Gaza .They're still killing these refugees and their children and grandchildren.It was founded on stolen land,stolen farms,erased villages and the theft of whole cities.

In the process Palestinians were murdered en masse in places like Deir Yassin.


I recount these things not to convince you Bearded Bruce but to remind other Mudcatters of the terrible fate that has befallen the Palestinian people since their exile in 1948.
Free Palestine!
Ifor