Jonathan Miller, reporting for the UK's Channel Four:
You've gotta watch the whole thing. It builds to a shocking level of destruction.
"What we found was breathtaking. A village wiped off the map".
He goes on to say:
Our camera cannot hope to convey the enormity of the destruction here. I've covered earthquakes, hurricanes, and the Tsunami. And what has happened here is as bad, or worse, than anything I've seen in any of those. This was done by Israeli bulldozers.
If you can take it, there's worse to come ...
Wonder why you haven't heard much of this? Well it's all about timing, and it was 100% deliberate. They knew that when Obama was inaugurated, and the world's attention completely would be completely turned away from their crimes, well, that's when they could stop the destruction and let journalists into the area. When nobody would be listening:
ThinkProgress from January 8:
http://thinkprogress.org/...
Last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC correspondent Richard Engel discussed Israel’s refusal to let reporters into Gaza. "I’ve called everyday and said ‘when are we going to be allowed in?’" he said, adding that one Israeli official "had an interesting explanation" for the situation. The official told Engel that Israel doesn’t want reporters in Gaza documenting the humanitarian situation or revealing military tactics. Israel is trying to "manage the image" of the war, Engel reported, adding this:
ENGEL: This official told me he expects this operation, while negotiations are taking place, will last several more days. And that after that, reporters would eventually be allowed in. But at that stage, Israel is assuming the United States will mostly be focused on all of the coverage around the inauguration, and that viewers simply won’t care at that point.
The U.N. is beginning to state the obvious:
UN Expert: Compelling Evidence of Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
UN human rights expert and retired Princeton law professor Richard Falk said today that there is compelling evidence that Israel violated the laws of war by "conducting a large-scale military operation against an essentially defenseless population."
"There needs to be an investigation carried out under independent auspices as to whether these grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions should be treated as war crimes," the professor said, adding that he believes "that there is the prima facie case for reaching that conclusion."
"This is the first time I know of where a civilian population has been essentially locked into the war zone, not allowed to leave it despite the dense population and the obvious risks that were entailed," Falk pointed out, "the civilians in Gaza were denied the option of becoming a refugee."
Your tax dollars at work. That's what pisses me off the most about this. Israel would be utterly unable to do this sort of crap without the financial and military backing of the United States. That's us. That's our money, handed to them, so they can kill and destroy. For what?
What does the United States get out of this?
From Miller's report:
"As one man later said to me, "the people who did this never want peace".