Gaza: new flashpoint in ‘war on terror’|3Jan09|Socialist Worker
Israel carefully planned its latest butchery in Gaza. Defence minister Ehud Barak asked the military to prepare an assault over six months ago – even as a “truce” with Hamas was being negotiated – according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The recent assault was pre-meditated murder, not a response to Hamas’s rocket attacks as Israel’s supporters claim.
The F-16 fighter jets used to bomb Gaza were paid for by a US government that intends to hand Israel an average of $3 billion a year in military aid for the next decade.
One of the world’s most modern war machines – armed with tanks, helicopter gunships, warplanes and even nuclear warheads – is being mobilised against a population that Israel has sought to drive back into medieval conditions.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
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