World’s ‘Unwavering Commitment’ to Inequality - Israel/USA/Arms
Ramzy Baroud; 5/3/08
Death hovered over Gaza long before locally-made Palestinian rockets struck near the Israeli southern town of Sderot on Feb. 27, killing Roni Yechiah and sparking an Israeli retaliation that has claimed over hundred Palestinian lives.Yechiah’s death was actually the first of its kind in nine months, and understandably so. The crude Palestinian rockets were often criticized even by Palestinians as useless in the tit-for-tat style of war under way, while easily used by Israeli officials as a “casus belli,” or at least as an excuse for keeping Gaza contained, besieged and on the brink of starvation.
See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=107488&d=5&m=3&y=2008