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400 dead and over 1,000 wounded so far, with a ground offensive looking all the more likely as time goes on. I'm starting to wonder if Hamas even knows it's shooting at Israel; the way Israel continues to assimila... sorry, "extend its security border" into Palestinian territory, they may well think they're just doing target practice in their own borders when they're actually firing at newly-acquired Israeli territory.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
Scary thing is, if you parse out the UN casualty figures in that article, not many of the civilian dead are counted as male. So apparently almost any adult male in Gaza is considered fair game. Tall Gazan teenagers should consider crouching.
Once again, the Israeli offensive is being categorized as a 'response', when the chain of events leading up to this make that a muddled assessment at best, and downright farcical at worst. Meanwhile, western governments remain unwilling to go beyond verbal finger-wagging at Israel. You have to wonder exactly how much death n' occupation it will take over there before this is no longer seen as Dudley Do-Right vs Snidley Whiplash... |
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