Sun 2 Mar 2008
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
UPDATE : Some 60 Palestinians have now died during Israel’s latest assault on Gaza. Two Israeli Defence Force soldiers have also been killed in the fighting.
The collective punishment in the Gaza Strip continues, as the rocket fire into Israel increases and the rhetoric-of-human-destruction grows more insane on both sides :
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Israel’s deputy defence minister yesterday warned his country was close to launching a huge military operation in Gaza and said Palestinians would bring on themselves a “bigger shoah,” using the Hebrew word usually reserved for the Holocaust.
The choice of vocabulary from Matan Vilnai, an often outspoken former army general, was unusually grave - the word is not normally used for anything other than the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews.
Vilnai was speaking about his government’s plans to tackle the continued firing of makeshift rockets, known as Qassams, from Gaza.
“The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah because we will use all our might to defend ourselves,” he said, in a telephone interview with army radio yesterday morning.
In just two days this week, Israeli military strikes killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza, among them several civilians, including four young boys who were playing football and an infant.
Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel, killing one man in Sderot, and reaching as far as the city of Ashkelon, 11 miles away.
It was the latest in several recent rounds of violence in Gaza, a conflict that Israeli officials already describe as a “war.”
According to the United Nations, 80 Palestinians were killed and 82 injured by Israeli military strikes in Gaza in January alone.
At the same time 267 rockets and 256 mortars were fired towards Israel, injuring nine Israelis.
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