Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Egypt, Gaza, gaza Strip, guerilla warfare, Hamas, Hizballah, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, Palestinian, Rafah, Rafah Crossing, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Syria, Zionism, Zionist
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11 January 2009
Source: Electronic Intifada
While Israel fervently attempts to terrorize the Palestinians into submission in Gaza, many observers have started to wonder why Hizballah has refrained from stepping in militarily to assist its brothers-in-arms, Hamas. Such musings fail to take account of the constraints on Hizballah’s room for action, as well as the circumstances under which Hizballah would ignore such constraints. The question that should be posed is not so much if Hizballah will act, but when.
As things currently stand, Hizballah is not in a position to directly help Hamas militarily by opening a new front with Israel. In the first place, Hizballah and its supporters have only recently recovered from the devastating impact of Israel’s war against them in July 2006. A Hizballah offensive against (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Imperialism, Colonialism, White Supremacy, Afghanistan, Iraq, Racism, Zionist, Settler-Colonialism, Palestine, Palestinian, West Bank, Ha'aretz, Collective Punishment, Ofer Shmerling, gaza Strip, Israeli Apartheid, Al Jazeera, US-Supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes, Apache Helicopters, Gaza Massacre, State-Terrorism, NATO bombing, Rocket Attacks, Israeli Blockade, John Ging, United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Electronic Intifada, Bilin, Nilin, Palestinian Authority, Ramallah, East Jerusalem, Settlers, Arab Media, Tzipi Livni, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Rafah
Palestinians carry the body of a victim of an Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 27 December 2008.
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27 December 2008
“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel’s latest massacres were broadcast around the world.
A short time earlier, US-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes and Apache helicopters dropped over 100 bombs on dozens of locations in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip killing at least 195 persons and injuring hundreds more. Many of these locations were police stations located, like police stations the world over, in the middle of civilian areas. The US government was one of the first to offer its support for Israel’s attacks, and others will follow.
Reports said that many of the dead were (more…)
