Debate on Israeli military action in Gaza

[rainonlevs]

Democracy Now! has devoted today's show to the situation in Gaza. Leading off there was an excellent debate:

A Debate on Israel’s Invasion of Gaza: UNRWA’s Christopher Gunness v. Israel Project’s Meagan Buren

On the tenth day of Israel’s continued assault on the Gaza Strip and in spite of mounting international protests, Israeli ground troops

Comments

[madali]

"# 9,000 rockets have been fired at Israeli civilians (time span unknown) - unchallenged."

This sounds scary, but most of these rockets are home-made.

http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=883997&ct=3887857

That site shows that from Nov, 2001 to Jun, 2008, 23 people have died from those rocket attacks. In the last week of Israel retaliation, more CHILDREN have been killed than that number.

[rainonlevs]

Excellent point. In fact, before the overt military attacks, half that number of people (11) died just from Israel refusing travel for medical treatment just since August 2008. Overall, I found the IP spokesperson's argument that though things are "very difficult" in Gaza, "there are very difficult situations on the ground inside of Israel, as well" less than compelling