Why?

And as I posted in an OT comment on “Rebranding Jews,” here is what Friday’s Haaretz is reporting: ‘U.S. furious over Israeli incitement against Obama’

The U.S. administration is furious over Israeli incitement against President Barack Obama, Democratic congressmen close to Obama told an Israeli source who returned from a visit to Washington this week.

The congressmen even hinted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been personally involved.

The source, who met in Washington with administration officials and members of Congress, told Haaretz he was stunned by the level of anger there over attempts to portray Obama to the American public as an enemy of Israel because of his efforts to restart peace talks and freeze settlement construction.

“There are people here who are playing with fire by damaging our relationship with the U.S.,” the source said. [...]

The rest: link to haaretz.com

This is because the truth is too damning, so in a sense you have to put alternate media and the main sources of information like the report and the human rights information together. What you come up with is that the massacre (and there is a reason I call it a massacre) was meant to be, because they targeted specifically the people of Gaza indiscriminately. It was meant to kill the innocent, the weak, the children, women, old people, and if they could the “militants.” When you read everything, this is what you come away with.

The one issue which no one seems to be able to decipher when you read the testimonies, like those produced by Breaking The Silence is the refrain from the Israeli soldiers of “where was the enemy?” There were no battles. So where was this seething violent Hamas, you know, the picture that is painted? I know where they were, they were directing the people – trying to rush them to places of hiding where there was no place to hide. This is because they knew that the forces were not coming after them, they were coming for all of the people who are over 50% children, and any thing that meant a normal life (infrastructure, water facilities, chicken farms, flour mill, homes of residents, schools, hospitals, etc.), to destroy. That is because Hamas is not the target, the Palestinians are the target, they were the target before there was even any Hamas. The goal is to drive them away or to exterminate them.

The soldiers kept saying “where is the enemy (in the Break The Silence testimonies),” and they began to wonder in the “field” – why is this horrific bombing going on, shelling, strafing, release of phosphorous weapons right over populations (not as cover for operations because there were enemies there, they were not there, but to burn the tender flesh off of the bodies of human beings). The only restraint that there was occurred because there was a watching world (as much as it could watch with the banning of all media sources), which merely becomes more of a condemnation because it shows that the activity was coldly calculated and not an act of passion or rage.

Question: is there any publication or news outlet in the U.S. that is doing a credible job of covering the I/P conflagration? Tim McGurk was doing some fine work at Time, but he seems to be silenced; the Christian Science Monitor also appears to be courageous in its coverage. Anybody else? Any one?