To Woolyhead
I would like to comment on a few of the points you have raised in your above posting.

Firstly the few thousands Israeli settlers who withdrew from Gaza were there in the first place as armed paramilitaries with their families.How arrogant they were.

They with the help of the Israeli army ruled a city of over a million people and made life there intolerable for the Palestinian Gazans.

The Palestinians were restricted to a handful of beaches .Water supplies were grabbed by the settlers and reduced for the Gazans.It was said that the settlerrs cattle were allowed more water than the Gazans.Roadblocks were set up on a permanent basis across Gaza making even short journeys last hours at a time.

But even more to the point it is simply not true that the Israelis left Gaza.

Even after the Settlers were withdrawn the Israelis still controlled most of the border and denied permission Gazans to enter or leave their city by land,sea or air. Its airport for example was wrecked by Israeli attacks several years ago. Vessels were denied entry to the Gazan waterfront and Palestinian fishing boats were attacked if they tried to fish off the coast. Gaza has been in an economic stranglehold for years and Israel has been pulling the noose ever tighter.

It has also launched raids and missiles against Gaza prior to the invasion causing death,injury and trauma on a massive scale .Medical aid was denied and Palestinian patients who tried to leave for urgent medical treatment were refused permission to leave. Many of these patients died.What sort of policy is that?


The Jewish people suffered the most appalling holocaust at the hands of the nazis during the war. Their suffering was caused by a nazi european ideology that was anti semitic andd savage to its core.

The Palestinian people were innocent of this dreadful crime against humanity.You know they were. They are still paying the price for a crime they did not commit as a people decades after the holocaust.

But I must say the mass murder being committed against the civilian population of Gaza who are being killed in their hundreds and maimed in their thousands reminds me of the nazi barbarism . The indiscrimiate missile and bomb attacks against schools and hospitals; the bombing of complete neighbourhoods and the callous indifference by young fighting men to the deaths of children in front of them is sick. Something is rotten in the state of Israel.

The tactic of mass bombing of civilians was introduced by the nazis at Guernica in Spain in 1936 and what we are seeing in Gaza is more of the same but with greater firepower.
ifor