Israelis Idea of a Fun Time

As reported in The Wall Street Journal 1/08/09, Israelis now love to picnic on hilltops watching with binoculars the ongoing Israeli military massacres in the death camp called Gaza. Most of the 1.5 million captive Palestinians in tiny Gaza are from families herded there following the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Jewish terrorists. The current offensive is a continuation of this ethnic cleansing/genocide.

Israel attempts to justify the massive numbers of civilians it is slaughtering by claiming Hamas uses human shields, but the truth is that Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas on earth with its inmates packed in like sardines in a tin can. The Israelis have shelled schools, hospitals, and, yesterday, the UN headquarters where 700 Palestinian civilians were sheltered and thousands of gallons of fuel stored.

Israel claimed that Hamas militants were firing from within the UN headquarters but UN officials strongly deny this and point out that Israeli liaison officers, with whom they were in constant contact, never mentioned this concern to them (The New York Times 1/16/09) .

Furthermore, the Israelis used white phosphorus on the UN headquarters despite the fact that it has been outlawed as a weapon: such use amounts to chemical warfare resulting in horrific burns. Its only legal use is for illumination in non-densely-populated areas.

The Israeli UN bombing also destroyed hundreds of tons of food and medicine desperately needed by the suffering Palestinians. A few days earlier CNN showed an injured Palestinian woman in a hospital crying because her 6-month-old baby had died from lack of food and water due to the Israeli starvation blockade. BBC newscasts have also shown Gazans burned with white phosphorus and Palestinian children with multiple bullets in their brains. All this provides more fun times for the Israeli hilltop picnickers who can then go home and for dessert watch on TV the morbid close-up details of mangled and dead Palestinian women and children.