www.thornwalker.com/ditch/dtw_new_nazis_notes.htm
To Mr. Wright's article.
NOTES
1. Please note that the name of this weapon is not pronounced "kuhtoosha," pace ignorant American newsreaders. It's "kahtyoosha." The term is Russian, and is a double-diminutive of the name Ekatarina, or Katharine. A direct translation would be "little Kathy," a weirdly incongruous name for something so deadly.2. "Deadly Israeli Airstrike Sparks Fury," by Kathy Gannon, Associated Press, posted July 30, 2006, at the Guardian; and "There are so many dead children ...", The Glasgow [Scotland] Daily Record, July 31, 2006.
3. Ronn Neff points out that, by making the "human shield" claim, the Israelis are admitting that they don't care about killing civilians.
4. "The Sabra and Shatila Massacres (16-18 September 1982)," The Electronic Intifada.
Evidence uncovered by Robert Fisk indicates that the Israelis may have played a much more active role in the massacres. See his CounterPunch piece, "Sabra and Chatila Massacres: After 19 Years, the Truth at Last?",
November 28, 2001.5. On Deir Yassin, see "Deir Yassin: History of the Massacre," DeirYassin.org.
On Qibya, see "50th anniversary of the Sharon-led attack on Qibya," by Eric Ridenour, Al-Jazeerah,
October 13, 2003.6. Hezbollah's taking prisoner of two Israeli soldiers was apparently motivated by two considerations: (1) Solidarity with Hamas and the people of Gaza, who were being pounded after Hamas took two Israeli prisoners of their own (see footnote below); and (2) the desire to bargain for Lebanese hostages, most of them civilian, seized by Israel. Some of the hostages have been held for twenty years, and some were only children when they were kidnapped.
Also, note that, despite Israel's protestations that they are fighting to defend themselves from Hezbollah rockets fired at civilian targets, those rockets were used only after Israel began attacking Lebanese civilian targets.
7. Here's the way it works. When things are relatively calm in the occupied territories, and people begin to talk about peace agreements and other potential obstacles to the ethnic cleansing of Eretz Israel, the Israeli regime commits a provocation. Sometimes it's the assassination of an Arab politician. Other times it's a renewed offensive, with bulldozers destroying Arab property, the bombing of an apartment building or an Arab government office, or a stepped-up campaign of arrests of civilians.
In this case, the Israeli attempt to stir up Palestinian violence by strangling the Palestinian economy through sanctions — ostensibly as a reaction to the democratic election of the "terrorist" organization Hamas — was unsuccessful. A few ineffective homemade "Qassam" rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel, but they were no more than a nuisance. Meanwhile, Hamas was keeping its own fighters in check, and continued making noises about its willingness to accept the continued existence of Israel in return for peace. Israel faced being embarrassed by increasing world opinion in favor of their dealing with the legally elected Hamas government.
The beach shelling worked out wonderfully for the Israelis: Hamas retaliated by attacking an Israeli military checkpoint and taking two soldiers prisoner. That provided the grateful Israeli regime with the pretext it needed to embark on an obviously pre-planned campaign of terror against Gaza, and enfold itself once again in its cherished mantle of victimhood.
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