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Thread #92618 Message #1781352
Posted By: GUEST,ifor
11-Jul-06 - 06:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
Subject: RE: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
The Israeli writer Uri Avnery has compared the suffering of the people of Gaza to a "Palestinian Massada." [see Counterpoint ].
On one side you have a well trained army with jet bombers,helicopter gunships, huge tanks,sophisticated machine guns and naval warships....on the other side there are poorly trained and lightly armed fighters with kalashnikovs and grenade launchers....and the Palestinians are taking a pounding.But still the Israelis cannot win.
The Israeli army has kidnapped dozens of elected Palestinian authority members from the West Bank refugee camps and towns but the prospect of occupying Gaza with its million plus population is a different prospect altogether hence it is starving and terrorising its civilian residents including the children.
The Israeli military does not abide by the Geneva Convention and a humanitarian crisis is enveloping Gaza.But still the Palestinians refuse to be beaten into submission.
ifor