no ceasefire
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:28 am
gabh mo leisgeul airson na beurla tha seo;
tha e air a bhith a' cur dragh orm gu bheil daoine den bheachd gu bheil a' chúis tha seo mu na missiles, is ag rádh gun e hamas a bhris an ceasefire an toisich. 's e am blockade a thóisich a h-uile rud ach cha chluinn thu facal ma dheidhinn sna páipearan - díreach gur e hamas a thug ionnsaigh air iosrail
1200 dead, 6000 injured: Enough for now says Israel.
This is no ceasefire. Israel has momentarily stopped bombing schools, mosques, hospitals, universities and residential buildings.
"We have achieved our objectives, and more," says Israeli prime minister Olmert. So 1200 dead, 350 of them children, is slaughter enough for now.
Injuring 6000 people, bombing hospitals and ambulances, killing medical staff -- that will do for now, says Israel. But, says Israel, it may start again any time it wishes.
As for lifting the blockade, which has starved 1.5 million Gazans of essentials such as food, fuel and medical supplies for the past three years - not a word. As for opening Gaza's borders, which have locked the population into one giant concentration camp -- not a word.
The cost to Israel in the past three weeks: three civilians and ten soldiers killed, four of them by their own troops, tells its own story of the mass murder suffered by Palestinians in Gaza.
Only one Israeli was killed by Hamas in the year before Israel unleashed the last three weeks of carnage. Hamas's rockets were always a pretext for a long planned war to erase the memory of Israel's defeat in Lebanon in 2006 and to bolster the electoral prospects of Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak in Israel's general election next month.
Instead of offering Israel the use of the British navy against Hamas, the legitimate government in Gaza, Gordon Brown should be announcing a complete ban on all arms trade with Israel, as he would if any other country had carried out war crimes on such a scale and violated so many international laws and the articles of the United Nations Charter.
tha e air a bhith a' cur dragh orm gu bheil daoine den bheachd gu bheil a' chúis tha seo mu na missiles, is ag rádh gun e hamas a bhris an ceasefire an toisich. 's e am blockade a thóisich a h-uile rud ach cha chluinn thu facal ma dheidhinn sna páipearan - díreach gur e hamas a thug ionnsaigh air iosrail