by Melanie Phillips
Here is some information about the war between Gaza and
Israel that for some unaccountable reason you may have missed today in Britain’s
mainstream media.
- The casualty rate in Gaza from Israeli
strikes is astoundingly low
Since the beginning of Israel’s operation Pillar of
Defence last Wednesday against Hamas rocket attacks, there have been more than
1000 Israeli air strikes. At time of writing, the Palestinian
death toll is 69. That is a staggeringly small number of fatalities
for more than 1000 bombing raids.
It shows beyond doubt that the Israelis are not only
doing everything they can to avoid civilian casualties, but have achieved a
degree of precision in doing so which no other army can match. For sure, every
civilian casualty is regrettable, and the deaths of children are always tragic
-- today’s apparently heavy toll particularly so, including at what appears to
have been a mistaken target. Such mistakes inevitably happen in war.
But consider this: the very low casualty rate among
Israelis from the thousands of rockets that have rained down on them from Gaza is
largely due to the fact that Israel has provided its citizens with shelters to
save their lives. In Gaza, by horrific contrast, the Hamas leadership has deliberately
exposed its citizens to attack by siting its rocket arsenals among them in
order to maximise the number of civilian men, women and children who will be
killed.
- A number of Gazan civilians may have been
killed by their own rockets
Israel says
that no fewer than 60 of the 703 rockets that Hamas fired at Israel between
last Wednesday and Saturday fell inside Gaza on Palestinian civilians. The
question therefore is how many of the 69 dead Palestinians were killed by
their own rockets?
- Here’s one: Hamas lies that a child killed
by its own rocket was killed by Israel
Last Friday, a number of papers along with outlets such
as CNN in the US published prominent footage of the Egyptian Prime Minister
Hisham Kanil weeping over the body cradled in his arms of a dead child, Mahmoud
Sadallah, who Hamas claimed had been killed in an Israeli air strike. Blogger Elder
of Zyon smelled a rat and, piecing together convincing circumstantial
evidence, had concluded by this morning that the child was almost certainly not
killed by an Israeli strike – not least because on Friday morning when the
child died the Israelis had paused their bombing missions to allow for cease-fire
talks in Gaza to proceed -- but by a Hamas missile that was fired at Israel
but had fallen short in Gaza. Now experts from the Palestinian Centre for Human
Rights who visited the site on Saturday have said they believe that the
explosion that killed Mahmoud Sadallah was indeed caused by a Palestinian
rocket.
Just how prominent do you reckon the apologies on CNN
and in the British media for this sloppy and incompetent reporting/malicious
war libel of Israel will be?
- Hamas admits to using human shields
In 2008 , Gaza MP Fathi Muhammad boasted
that Hamas used Gaza’s civilian population as human shields. He screamed:
‘For the Palestinian people, death has become an
industry at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land.
The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is
why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly and
the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if
they were saying to the Zionist enemy, “We desire death like you desire life”.’
Remember this next time you hear or read of claims by Palestinians
or their useful western media idiots of ‘massacres’ of civilians in Gaza.
- Hamas is now using journalists as human
shields
Hamas is preventing at least 22 foreign journalists from
leaving Gaza for Israel. According to Israel’s
Foreign Ministry, among those being detained are nine Italian citizens, one
Canadian, one South Korean, a French national and six journalists from Japan.
In addition, two Turkish Red Crescent members have been refused exit.
- Hamas tells lies as a matter of routine
Hamas has claimed, inter
alia, that Israel’s Ben Gurion airport has been closed (false), that it had succeeded
in shooting down an Israeli F16 plane (false), that it had hit Tel Aviv and had
cut off electricity there (false). When will the western media stop assuming
that they can believe any claim that Hamas ever makes?
- Hamas is now threatening human bomb
attacks
Hamas is now threatening to
use human bombs against both Israeli civilians in buses and cafes, and against
Israeli soldiers in any ground offensive in Gaza. This is what almost certainly
faces the Israel Defence Forces if they go in, because as Fathi Muhammad said
(above), the Palestinians are a death cult; they are committed to death and to killing,
while the Israelis are committed to life and to saving life.
- Israel is feeding the hand that bites it
Unprecedentedly for a country at war, Israel continues to supply food, gas
and medical supplies to its enemies in Gaza for humanitarian reasons. Would any
other country in the world keep the supply route open to people who are firing
thousands of rockets to murder its people and are threatening to turn themselves
into human bombs to kill its soldiers and civilians, so that they can continue
to do so?
- And now for some news from civilised Britain
On BBC
Radio’s Any Questions on Friday evening, audience questioner Stephen
Bedford asked:
‘Despite all the foreign aid and support, Israel has
spectacularly failed to get on with its neighbours. Does Israel deserve a
future?’
So with Israel having faced existential attack from the
Arab and Muslim world for the six decades of its existence, and having been under
intensive rocket, missile and human bomb attack from them for more than a
decade, the BBC Any Questions production team selected as the audience question
to launch its discussion of the Gaza war whether Israel actually deserved to
exist at all.
Vile.
Melanie Phillips
Source: http://melaniephillips.com/here-is-the-real-news
Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.
1 comment:
The Arabs in Palestine did not have equal rights in the land with those of the Jews as Ms Phillips suggests. The Jews had superior rights. The British Balfour policy, adopted by the Allies recognized the political or national rights over Palestine as belonging to the Jews. But they could not place the Jews in power as sovereign immediately because at the time the Jews were only a 10% minority and that would be considered "antidemocratic". So they placed them in trust with England as the Trustee, giving the Jews a National Home while the Jews were the beneficial owners of the political rights, but England was to have legal dominion as trustee. That would permit it to exercise sovereignty as the mandatory power until the political rights vested in the Jews. That would take place when the Jews attained a population majority. The details of the San Remo agreement are also on line in a two part op ed that can be seen at:
Part 1: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11408
Part 2: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11412
The San Remo agreement was approved by the League of Nations and by the US who was not a member through the action of a joint resolution of Congress in 1922, and by a treaty named the Anglo American Convention of 1924.
The National Home was therefore the first part of a two step plan in which the Jews were to get a reconstituted state when they attained a population majority and the other attributes needed for a modern European state.
The plan was set forth in a memo of the British Foreign Office dated September 19, 1917 just shortly before the Balfour plan was published as the Balfour Declaration.
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