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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: AK2004 who wrote (577121)5/21/2004 6:03:27 AM
From: Paul van Wijk  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
The Israeli propaganda machine is trying to blur the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Palestinians during the Gaza incursions as well as the nature of the struggle. Avi Pazner, a government spokesman, says: "This is a fight against terrorism. We are extremely careful not to hurt or damage in any way the civilian populations. We target the terrorists."

Israel's UN ambassador, Dan Gillerman, bizarrely links the issue of Gaza to that of missiles, as though this wretched and poverty-stricken corner of the illegally occupied territories is on a par with Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the notorious 45-minute claim.

Using the argument that Israel's army had gone in to root out workshops making rockets, he declared: "The whole of Gaza, and Rafah in particular, is on the verge of becoming a missile base aimed at Israel's cities and civilians. What would the international community have Israel do? Just sit back and wait for this horrific scenario to materialise?"

This is hyperbolic nonsense. The record shows that for decades Gaza was not used as a base for suicide bombers. Apart from one attack that killed four soldiers at the Erez crossing out of Gaza in January this year and another that killed 10 civilians at Ashdod in March, the suicide bombers all came from the West Bank.

guardian.co.uk
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