Exploring motives for slaughter

Israel bombing could spark much wider conflict

- DAVID WILSON

THE bombing of Gaza’s Al-Ahli Hospital on the October 17, killed in excess of 500 innocent men, women and children.

This fact, both sides agree on. In eight days, Israel fired over 8,000 missiles into Gaza, each capable of demolishing apartment blocks, schools, mosques, bakeries and hospitals; the Washington Post reported that the tonnage of bombs that Israel dropped on the Gaza Strip in just six days is more than the U.S. dropped on Afghanistan in an entire year. Any missiles fired by Hamas out of Gaza are fired from home-made rockets, as Israel controls all imports into this enclosed zone that houses over two million people, more than half being children under sixteen. Common sense suggests that the bomb was fired by Israel, much as common sense suggests that Russia did not blow up their own Nord Stream pipeline. Time and time again, the western media take these disasters and twist them for their own agenda. All the media-talk is of who fired the one bomb on the hospital, giving the excuse to ignore the thousands of other bombs that definitely were fired by Israel, and which have caused massive devastation and a death toll already standing in excess of 8,000, with tens of thousands injured.