Editorial: NYT says Israel passed point of 'diminishing returns' on Gaza
Comment No. 30 to The New York Times editorial, A Way out of Gaza?
by Diane V. McLoughlin January 15, 2009
NYT: 'we fear the assault on Gaza has passed the point of diminishing returns.'
Once again the New York Times has the blood of the innocents on its ink-stained hands. Let
us, once and for all, drop the polite fiction that Israel was defending itself from rocket fire.
During the ceasefire brokered between Israel and Hamas, beginning in June 2008, there was
one rocket fired from the entirety of Gaza in July, one rocket fired from all of Gaza in
September, one rocket fired in October 2008.
Incredible. American media misrepresents the situation between Israel and Gaza coming and
going. Hamas is the duly-elected political arm of the Palestinian people. It had to have taken
gargantuan effort to silence splinter groups in Gaza, in spite of the Israel-imposed
concentration camp conditions. But they did.
All the while, Israel refused to lift the eighteen-month long military siege starving all one and a
half million men, women and children of Gaza. Half of Gaza is under fourteen years of age.
November 4th, Israel broke the siege and attacked, killing six in Gaza.
Hamas offered to renew the ceasefire. Israel did not abide by the ceasefire. Israel did not
accept offers to renew the ceasefire. All the while during the ceasefire, Israel girded for war.
I say no more billions in American tax dollars to bank-roll Israel's war crimes.
116+votes
Comment No. 30 to The New York Times editorial, A Way out of Gaza?
by Diane V. McLoughlin January 15, 2009
NYT: 'we fear the assault on Gaza has passed the point of diminishing returns.'
Once again the New York Times has the blood of the innocents on its ink-stained hands. Let
us, once and for all, drop the polite fiction that Israel was defending itself from rocket fire.
During the ceasefire brokered between Israel and Hamas, beginning in June 2008, there was
one rocket fired from the entirety of Gaza in July, one rocket fired from all of Gaza in
September, one rocket fired in October 2008.
Incredible. American media misrepresents the situation between Israel and Gaza coming and
going. Hamas is the duly-elected political arm of the Palestinian people. It had to have taken
gargantuan effort to silence splinter groups in Gaza, in spite of the Israel-imposed
concentration camp conditions. But they did.
All the while, Israel refused to lift the eighteen-month long military siege starving all one and a
half million men, women and children of Gaza. Half of Gaza is under fourteen years of age.
November 4th, Israel broke the siege and attacked, killing six in Gaza.
Hamas offered to renew the ceasefire. Israel did not abide by the ceasefire. Israel did not
accept offers to renew the ceasefire. All the while during the ceasefire, Israel girded for war.
I say no more billions in American tax dollars to bank-roll Israel's war crimes.
116+votes
