Israeli warplanes bombed areas across the Gaza Strip early Friday, injuring at least three children, according to news outlets. Although the Israeli military claims that the targets were weapons-manufacturing plants and arms caches, Ma’an, Al Jazeera, Haaretz, and YNet are reporting that the Israeli air force struck civilian sites, including a metal factory in a refugee camp and the Daloul cheese and dairy factory in Gaza City.
The targeting of the means of sustenance for the civilian population in Gaza is an area that Judge Richard Goldstone focused on in his United Nations report on the Israeli assault on Gaza. I assume the crude logic behind the targeting of a cheese and dairy factory in the heart of Gaza is part of putting “Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” as Dov Weisglass, an adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said, in explaining the suffocating blockade that has been imposed on the Gaza Strip.
Goldstone reported on the destruction of the el-Bader flourmill and the Sawafeary chicken farms. The section where Goldstone deals with these attacks can be found on pages 199-206 of his report.
On the destruction of the flour mill, the report states, “that the destruction of the mill was carried out for the purpose of denying sustenance to the civilian population, which is a violation of customary international law as reflected in article 54 (2) of Additional Protocol I and may constitute a war crime.”
More broadly, the report found, “as a result of its actions to destroy food and water supplies and infrastructure, Israel has violated article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and article 12 (2) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.”
I wonder what the esteemed jurist would say about this attack on the cheese and dairy factory. We know what Israel will say: "Cheese and dairy factories are part of the Hamas terror infrastructure," or "cheese and dairy can be used to make bombs," or "rockets with cheese and dairy attached are particularly dangerous."
“rockets with cheese and dairy attached are particularly dangerous.”
Think about the cholesterol!
I wonder if the IDF asked the two injured Palestinian children to say “Cheeeeze” before firing at them?
Israel is practically begging Hamas and others to attack it. Of course should Hamas launch rockets or should a third Intifada breakout, US media will report about those violent Palestinians and how Israel is defending itself.
Netanyahu wants to test Obama and see if Obama will support Israel against Hamas in light of Obama’s pressuring Netanyahu over the colonial settlements in East Jerusalem. Once Israel bombards Gaza like it did a little over a year ago, Obama will HAVE to line up behind Netanyahu and Israel. That White House dinner snub was the last straw for the arrogant, sociopath that Netyahoo is.
Thus, the “heat” will have been taken off of Netyahoo and his government on the colonial settlements issue.
Wait for the situation to escalate sharply in the coming days and weeks.
I would argue that setting up an ambush on the border is a pretty good example of Hamas “begging Israel to attack it”
Funny no mention of the cause of this air strike, although it was rather callous and very counter-productive on Israel’s part to bomb a cheese factory (unless it was used for weapons storage or production. Maybe Hamas went from using Mosques and hospitals to cheese factories)
Gee, yeah, yonira, how dare Hamas actually stand on their side of the border. How dare they “ambush” Israeli soldiers planning on invading Gazan territory.
Gee, maybe there were Iraqi WMDs in the cheese factory, huh yonira?
Yonira obviously hasn’t looked at the video of the event. It wasn’t an ambush on the border. Major Peretz directed an incursion into the interior of Gaza that even the IDF admitted violated the rules of engagement and was a mistake. It was all reported in the Israeli press. I would also add that the nonexistent ambush was not used as an excuse by the Israeli government for the subsequent air raids on Gaza. The stated excuse for the air raids was a rocket fired into Ashkelon, although there is actually some reporting that the stated excuse was a false alarm.
Please note also that France condemned the air raids and the UK and the US expressed concern.
Each of Israel’s violations of international law is now being closely observed, catalogued and reacted to by the world community. I would imagine that the Israeli government is starting to be gripped by panic and paranoia. The Goldstone Report, after all, is still coming down the tracks.
Yonira, please stop making up bullshit when you comment.
There is very little evidence to suggest that Hamas has a policy or actively stores weapons in Mosques or hospitals, nor is there any evidence to suggest that they kept weapons in a cheese factory.
Please stop spreading mythology.
If you want to make an argument, please base it on facts, not on Zionist propaganda.
Avi writes: “Netanyahu wants to test Obama and see if Obama will support Israel against Hamas in light of Obama’s pressuring Netanyahu over the colonial settlements in East Jerusalem. Once Israel bombards Gaza like it did a little over a year ago, Obama will HAVE to line up behind Netanyahu and Israel.”
This is two points. [1] “Netanyahu wants to test Obama and see if Obama will support Israel against Hamas.” Yes. Israel always wants to test the USA, the more so when there is any question of US support, particularly now. Also to drum up support among The Lobby and Congress, etc. Poor Israel, attacked, must defend. Oh dear, did we go too far?
[2] “Once Israel bombards Gaza like it did a little over a year ago, Obama will HAVE to line up behind Netanyahu and Israel.” Note well: HAVE TO. If Israel REALLY goes too far, as in Gaza 2008/2009, another Goldstone Report may be expected (or some equivalent) and the US will really be on the spot, because the adverse consequences for Israel would be too much. That is, daddy might speak sharply to junior or even spank him, but try like the dickens not to let him go to jail.
Thus, as Avi writes, “Wait for the situation to escalate sharply in the coming days and weeks.”
“Unilateral cease fire,” huh.
What is about Zionism that it only ever seems to predicate itself on blatant lies?
IDF airplanes are given very precise coordinates, based on large-scale maps of Gaza. The coordinates are very precise indeed, and the pilots (and their audio-visual targetting devices) are given nothing else. (Only the Apache helicopter pilots are given the freedom to gun down groups of natives that they might find ‘suspicious’.)
On the other hand, it is well-known that mosques and hospitals give a ‘holy aura’ to weapons, making them easy to conceal there; just like storing a bunch of guns and rockets in your local church or synagogue.
But cheese is the ultimate disguise; its physical properties hide anything. So when I smuggled a small nuclear bomb (obtainable mail order http://nuclearbombsrus.com) from Spain into England last week, I concealed it in a large Majorcan cheese. Unfortunately, when I got to Gatwick, I couldn’t blow up myself and most of southern England, because the security guards had already broken my pail of olives, and spilled the brine, which water-logged my nuclear device, so it didn’t work. Electrical devices are not always reliable.
RE: “Israeli warplanes bombed areas across the Gaza Strip early Friday, injuring at least three children, according to news outlets…” – Alex Kane
MUSICAL INTERLUDE (brought to you by Maximum Strength Ziocaine™):
One of these days the sky’s gonna break and everything will escape and I’ll know
One of these days the mountains are gonna fall into the sea and they’ll know…
…These are only walls that hold me here…
…One day soon I’ll hold you like the sun holds the moon
And we will hear those planes overhead and we won’t have to be scared
We won’t have to be scared, we won’t have to be scared…
Civil Twilight, Letters From The Sky (04:39) – link to youtube.com
I left out the most important line, but then isn’t that “par for the course/coarse”? Paging Doctor Freud!
One of these days the sky’s gonna break and everything will escape and I’ll know
One of these days the mountains are gonna fall into the sea and they’ll know…
…One of these days letters are gonna fall from the sky telling us all to go free…
…’Cause even though you left me here I have nothing left to fear…
…These are only walls that hold me here…
…One day soon I’ll hold you like the sun holds the moon
And we will hear those planes overhead and we won’t have to be scared
We won’t have to be scared, we won’t have to be scared…
link to songmeanings.net
FROM ANTIWAR,COM, 04/02/10: “Israeli warplanes continued their bombardment of the Gaza Strip today, destroying a workshop in the refugee camp of Nusseirat and bombing a street in Khan Younis. Reports say that three children were injured in the attacks, which came as the planes peppered Khan Younis with leaflets threatening of further strikes….”
SOURCE – link to news.antiwar.com
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Wow, these towelheads will stop at nothing. Now they’re using lactic shields, cowardly mingling with cheeses and milk cans, which unfortunately become collateral damage when Israel defends itself. And do you know that an IDF soldier almost lost an eye when he was hit in the face with a slingshot-launched pot of yogurt?
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The brand of cheese you have to watch out for is Swiss cheese – it has lots of holes that weapons of mass destruction contraband can be hidden in…
Cheese whiz! Attacking a cheese factory; the story seems to have more holes in it than Swiss cheese, and reeks more odiferously than Linberger.
How soon do we hear the Israeli-irst apologists trying to defend this miscue by referencing the world-famous US cruise missile strike on the Sudanese[or was it Somali?] aspirin factory?
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