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by John Andrews / November 20th, 2012
It’s all but impossible for the vast majority of us to know what’s really happening in the concentration camp of Gaza at the moment: none of the world’s media can be relied upon to report the truth. It would seem that Hamas is indeed behind some recent rocket attacks against various places in occupied Palestine, but who’s behind Hamas? Given that the whole world knows that Osama Bin laden and Al Qaeda were originally made in the USA would it be very extraordinary to discover, in a hundred years time that Hamas had a similar provenance?
The reason the question is not quite as bizarre as it would first appear to the uninitiated is quite simple: an attack by the feeble and impoverished inmates of Gaza Concentration Camp on one of the most ruthless, unaccountable and mightiest armies on Earth is tantamount to committing suicide. Although committing suicide is a fairly common tactic by some of these poor and desperate people, inviting the mass murders of thousands of their defenceless families and friends by pitiless foreign invaders is not such a very common tactic. So why do it?
In the almost total absence of reliable information there is another very puzzling fact – the timing of the alleged Hamas attack.
It would seem that this attack was not some spur-of-the-moment impulse. Some reports suggest that quite a large number of rockets have been fired – a Times article refers to at least 87. If the arrival of these rockets in Gaza was unknown to the Illegal Occupiers of Palestine (possible but unlikely) it would have taken some time to acquire the quantity through the tightly restricted means available to Gaza’s inmates. Such precious weapons would not be used on the whim of some small local group – especially in such numbers. This must have been a planned operation, and planned operations require timing. Why would this be timed just a few days after an American presidential election? If you were going to commit mass suicide for a political reason and wanted to ensure maximum publicity – and surely that’s exactly what you would want – why do so at the most convenient time for an American president? Why not do it a week or two before the elections when the issue would surely be front and centre of the world’s media?
It’s impossible to know if the people of Gaza support this attack. On the one hand they must obviously know what the consequences will be; but on the other hand they might also think that to invite extermination by their most hated enemy after a last-ditch show of defiance is a much better option than the horrific inhuman suffering that enemy imposes on them day after day after day. But the timing of it puzzles me. If I were going to do it there’s no way I would do it at a time that couldn’t possibly be better for an American president.