The Unlimited Rights of the Holy States

Israeli forces shelled areas deep inside Gaza City on Thursday, hitting the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and injuring at least three people among the hundreds taking shelter in the compound, according to United Nations officials and witnesses.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel expressed regret for the strike but said that Israeli forces were fired on by Hamas militants from just outside the United Nations compound and then ran inside to take cover, according to Mr. Olmert’s spokesman, Mark Regev. “It is absolutely true that we were attacked from that place,” Mr. Olmert said in broadcast remarks, according to Reuters. (Source)

So if Gazans, inside Gaza, attack Israelis who are illegally invading their country and slaughtering civilians by the thousands, the Israeli’s claim the right to destroy any and all buildings from which the resistance is launched, even if it’s a U.N. compound where innocent Gazans are taking refuge and where international aid workers are attempting to help the thousands of victims.

In the attack on Thursday, Mr. Gunness said, the Israelis used phosphorous shells, according to Bloomberg. “The Israelis have shot three phosphorus shells against the compound, where hundreds of civilians are being sheltered,” he was quoted as saying. (Same source as above)

Israel is now using chemical weapons against the population of Gaza, a crime so severe that it appears the New York Times is forced to evade pointing out the grave and despicable implications that accompany the use of such toxic, deadly, and illegal weaponry in any armed conflict. Where is the outrage at U.S.-Israel and their savage and disgusting behavior?

The BBC said it received claims that Israeli troops have fired on Gaza residents trying to escape the conflict area.
It also said that its journalists “in Gaza and Israel” have compiled detailed accounts of the claims.

One testimony, BBC said, describes Israeli forces shooting a woman in the head after she stepped out of her house carrying a piece of white cloth, in response to an Israeli loudhailer announcement. Munir Shafik al-Najar, of Khouza village in the south-east of the Gaza Strip, told BBC that some 75 members of his extended family had ended up huddled in a house, surrounded by Israeli forces, after troops shelled the area and destroyed his brother’s home on Sunday night.
On Monday morning, “the Israeli army was saying: ‘This is the Israeli Defence Forces, we are asking all the people to leave their homes and go to the school. Ladies first, then men.’ We decided to send the women first, two by two,” he said. First to step outside was the wife of his cousin, Rawhiya al-Najar, 48. They shot her in the head,” he said. (Source)

This is already by far the largest and most severe campaign of international state-sponsored terrorism of the new millenium, save for the U.S. attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan which are in a category of their own.

Who can hold the criminal states accountable? Only the U.S. and Israeli populations, for the military might of the two rogue states effectively cancels any chance of a coalition of peace-loving states, maybe something like what the U.N. was designed to be, from taking any effective action and holding the criminal leadership of the U.S. and Israel accountable for their crimes.

I wish I could more aptly articulate my disgust, but my vocabulary constricts me to simple and empty condemnations as I helplessly await tomorrow morning’s stories about civilian slaughter and white phosphorus burnings of a defenseless people.