HOW TO CREATE TERRORISTS
I'm not one who tosses around terms like "war crimes" lightly, but I don't see how this can be described as anything but.
Collective punishment: Farmland destroyed, streets torn up, they even demolished the Gaza Zoo fer chrissakes. The IDF claims it was searching for tunnels used to smuggle arms. The story does not mention whether they found any.
UPDATE: BBC reports that the Israeli Defense Force claims to have found a tunnel. 40 dead, including several children, but they found a tunnel. Dozens of homes destroyed, hundreds of people made homeless, farmland razed, but they found a tunnel.
Was it worth it? Not to find one tunnel it wasn't. It's obvious, though, that tunnels weren't the only, or even the main, reason for the Rafah operation. The main reason for the incursion, the levelling of homes, the destruction of city streets and farmland, is to send a message to the Palestinians of Gaza: "We may be planning, eventually, to pull out of here, but don't think you've won. We still control you, and just to make that pure and sparkling clear, we'll bulldoze a few of your neighborhoods and shoot a few of your kids. And also destroy your zoo. So there."
more:
New York Times: Gaza Paradox.
Also:
Israeli official compares Rafah actions to World War II. (MSNBC)
[Justice Minister Yosef] Lapid spoke during a Cabinet debate over Israel's demolition of dozens of homes in the Rafah refugee camp along the Gaza-Egypt border.
After the meeting, Lapid gave two radio interviews in which he was careful not to liken army actions to the Holocaust.
But he said that television footage of an elderly Palestinian woman searching on hands and knees through the rubble of her home for her medicine "reminded me of my grandmother."
And the view from Al Jazeera.
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