Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to “act more forcefully still,” after a week of pounding the Gaza Strip, saying massive escalation could be seen if the current truce, brokered by the Egyptian government, fails.
For Gazans, the Israel strikes are a comparatively secondary issue, as a growing shortage of drinking water leaves a large portion of the civilian population in dire straits and the public hopes the election in Egypt will lead to open trade with their much larger neighbor.
But for Israel’s government making threats against Gaza, a popular pastime at any rate, seems to be an effort to convince the public that they are being “tough” on somebody at a time when the Egyptian election is in major focus and, apart from fretting there seems little Israel can do about the results.
Meanwhile, Israel’s military is still trying to justify a very ugly incident in the West Bank on March 27, in which Israeli soldiers attacked a random Palestinian house in the middle of the night and ended up killing a civilian.
Israeli officials say that the move was a training game, with the idea to “pick a quiet village in the area where you’re based, you open the map, choose a random house … You go in the middle of the night, you surround the house, you grab a guy as if it’s a real arrest.”
The incident brought three neighbors to the attacked house, where the non-uniformed soldiers were believed to be thieves. The soldiers shot them all, killing one. Officials say that “their lives were never in danger” because of the exercise and that it was the civilians’ reaction that caused the death.
For the military to use random civilians as practice is not training, it is terrorism. It is in line with the _practice of stopping Arab cars for dog sniffing training. This is never done to Jews. Only Christians and Muslims are abused by the Most Moral Army In the World [LOL, but it isn't funny]. __Zionism is Racism. __Zionism is terrorism. __And every American Congressman and Senator who votes for foreign aid to Israel, when they are not bouncing up and down applauding Bibi, an abettor of crimes against humanity.
Why the Palestinians bother with "truces" with the Israelis is beyond me. The Israelis are convinced they have the right to break the "truces" any time they like for any or no reason while the Palestinians must adhere to them regardless. Until Israel suffers consequences for breaking truces this disgusting behaviour will continue but that will never happen because the Washington would never allow it.
Zionism — The cutting edge in state sponsored terrorism
Israelis are only doing what every red blooded human would do given the lucrative situation they are in, namely, no priority other than to maximize profits in the trading of Middle-East oil for war materials made in USA.
So, maximizing terrorism in the Middle-East maximizes the need for war materials by the oil-rich dictatorships. And to steal land while torturing and starving the victims of such state terror, surely this is a money maker unequaled in the history of civilization, surely what Zionism is all about.
Of course, that's nothing like treating Palestinians as cattle. 'Practice arrests.' Nothing like cowboys catching pigs… …well, unless they grease the goy first.
Its like Hitler adressing Czech people during Nazi occupation after assasinacion of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942…"Kill another German official and I will level another villages like Lidice and Lezaky".
Ending terrorism means by FIRST stopping partcipating in it….simple us that…. peter czech
Most Israelis could see the sense in this excuse. It's those stupid Palestinians.
Imagine going to help a neighbor in the middle of the night? They should have stayed inside and called the police – like when the settler family was massacred.
Maybe these were people doing the new 'terrorist targeting training' for tourists. Spend a week on a settlement, hunting down and killing 'imaginary' terrorists – real life scenarios' nu?
Why does the United States government give carte blanche to the Israeli criminals? Because Zionist zillionaires own every member of Congress (with two or three exceptions) as well as the President of the United States and all departments of government. That disqualifies all of them from claiming to represent the American citizens — rendering Washington null and void. The rulers in Washington represent only the people who own them. The time has come for Americans to reclaim the American Dream and take back their country from the people who have stolen it.