The Suit And Tie Of A Humanitarian… January 11, 2009
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From The Jerusalem Post…
“The IDF is currently operating in the northern Gaza Strip but on Saturday, the air force dropped leaflets throughout Gaza warning residents of an impending expansion of the operation.”
Well, that’s very nice. The advance warning means that the Palestinians will be able to escape to….oh….
There’s a worrying precedent for this “humane brutality“…
“US troops sealed all roads to Falluja on Friday and in Arabic leaflets and loudspeaker messages urged women, children and non-fighting age men to flee, but said they would arrest any man under 45 trying to enter or leave the city.”
I can’t imagine anything more sick and twisted. Telling them they are about to be bombed, then making sure they can’t escape. It’s practically psychological torture: these poor people know they are likely to die, and the IDF is getting as much sadistic pleasure out of it as possible – all the while hoping to paint this as an example of their “efforts to avoid civilian casualties”. Yeah fucking right – like how they ordered 110 civilians into a house then shelled the next day. God knows where this will end.