Gaza wipe-out threat from Israeli official
By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/34864ECF-64D2-499E-B0C1-DB16BB24179E.htmTuesday 29 June 2004, 23:57 Makka Time, 20:57 GMT
Office buildings in Gaza City have come under Israeli rocket attack
A senior figure in the Israeli government has said his country could wipe out the Gaza Strip in response to armed Palestinian groups' attacks on Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.
"We could annihilate Beit Hanun and the rest of Gaza in a few hours. We certainly have the power to do so," Ze'ev Boim, Israel's deputy defence minister, told Gali Tzhal, the Israeli army radio.
(The US and the rest of the west shut their eyes and turn their heads. Occupiers get to do whatever they want and it's regarded as a right. The occupied fight back and it's called terrorism. And they will say that 'settlements' are being attacked. I say, when you say 'settlement' think 'stolen land.')
We are all paying for this hypocrisy and our own in one way or another.