To Beardedbruce
GUERNICA
I have just read your comment about the mass bombing of Guernica in 1936.

I think you are wrong when you say it was not the first mass bombing.

The nazis bombed the civilian population of Guernica and some three thousands were killed.It was a war crime.It was shocking even by the barbaric standards of the time.

Picasso painted his masterpiece which now hangs in the UN building in New York and I saw on television some of the delegates hurrying past it without a glance just two days ago.

The point is that the Israeli bombing of Gaza IS comparable to Guernica.

The Israeli war leaders have gone all out to pulverise a city full of civilians and have used the full range of heavy bombs,tank shells,phospherous bombs, naval guns and missiles to terrorise and kill the residents of Gaza.The reports coming out of Gaza are horrific!

In doing so they have blown up schools and the refugees sheltering there,apartment blocks,houses universities and even hospitals.

As Gideon Levy has written today in Haaretz the Israeli newspaper those who support the invasion must also justify the slaughter.
And with several hundred children dead,pregant women blown up and thousands mutilated the war gang have much to explain.

Going back to Guernica when Colin Powell made an important war speech before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 he stood in front of Picasso's anti war masterpiece and it was only a hastily plain sheet covering the painting that prevented him from speaking in front of one of the great anti war symbols of our time.

What is happening in Gaza is a crime and those responsible must be held to account.
ifor