Israeli army awaiting order for ground offensive in Gaza, time to murder children

[Effendi]

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As the fragile Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, is ending in eight days, Israeli military leaders stated on Wednesday that the Army is ready to carry out any military offensive the political leaders order, Israeli Ynet News reported.

Military sources said that the army already submitted to the political leadership in Israel several scenarios of action that were in turn handed to the cabinet.

The army said that Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip renewed the firing of homemade shells into adjacent Israeli area. Resistance groups said the act was in retaliation to military offensives and assaults carried out by the army in Gaza.

A senior security official in Israel slammed statements made by several members of the cabinet for publically calling for a military offensive in Gaza. The source said that there is no need to make a public call for an offensive.

The official added that the army is ready for the offensive and ready to implement any plan in this regard, but he also said that the political leadership should make a decision.

Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, called for an immediate military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Several Israel leaders called for a military offensive against Hamas and also called for a financially choking Gaza Strip.

On the ground, the Gaza Strip has already been chocked by the siege as its hospitals ran out of medical supplies and equipments; stores are empty ad hundreds of patients, including children and elderly, died after being banned from leaving Gaza for medical treatment abroad.

Last week, Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, including two children, and wounded at least ten others in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Source (http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m49484&hd=&size=1&l=e)

[Iran]

Is premeditated murder the same as negligence?

Israel has indeed caused some civilian deaths by accident or perhaps even by negligence or gross negligence, but it does not routinely plan to kill noncombatant civilian Palestinians as its goal. Israel does not deliberately target noncombatant men, women, or children for death. The Palestinians do.

On the rare occasions when an isolated Israeli recklessly or deliberately kills innocent, noncombatant civilian Palestinians (such attacks are very few and far between), those who carry out such acts are not celebrated and glorified by most Israelis, and most Israelis do not brag that more such attacks on noncombatant civilians will be forthcoming. This is the exact opposite of what occurs when a Palestinian does the same thing or worse.

The distinction is not that difficult to make, if you really think about it.

Even a dog understands the difference between being tripped over and being deliberately kicked.

Everyone on earth understands the difference between accidentally hitting a child with a car and deliberately planning to run over a child with a car and carrying out that very plan. One is a horrible accident or at most negligence or even gross negligence; the other is first-degree, premeditated murder.

No sane civilized society treats the driver who accidentally kills a child the same as it treats a serial murderer.

No reasonable person thinks that if the police accidentally take a civilian life while chasing a suspect, it is fair game for the police to be slaughtered in response -- or, worse yet, that it's fair game for the family of the victim to stand in the crowded town square and spray bullets in every direction to "get even." Yet that is exactly what Palestinians argue every day to justify their campaign of slaughtering innocent civilians.

When Israel starts detonating bombs in crowds of Palestinians who are just eating at restaurants -- not accidentally while pursing a military target, but routinely, as their entire goal -- then critics of Israel can legitimately say that there is moral equivalency between the Palestinians and Israel. Until then, there is no comparison.

[KidKaBoom]

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