Ed Harges, I believe you have hit the proverbial nail on the head.  Israel’s “accidental” killings of Palestinians are no accident at all, but part of a larger strategy to make the Palestinians so miserable they leave, then Israel can say “Look, they left their homes voluntarily, why can’t we take the land now?”

Despicable, immoral, and COMPLETELY independent of the fact that the Israelis are European Jews and the Palestinians are mostly Muslims.

Israel is a gigantic, stinking, fat ogre that sits on Palestine and grunts and farts as the Palestinians are crushed and suffocated underneath.

Hamas’s fault.  More interested in trying to kill Israelis, who have left years ago, than trying to build a nation.  Not even started the first step of nation building… like countries that have emerged in the last decades.

Countries around the world who are waiting for the first sign of normalcy from Hamas to help out.  Gaza could be awash in bucks and social and economic largesse if they acted in a normal fashion.

What are they supposed to do? They can’t work, go to school, or even get out of the house much of the time. Gaza is on the sea, but they can’t go swimming: Israel shells them when they get in the water. There’s no money to go to the movies, if there any movies to go to. They can’t even turn on the lights, much of the time. Hell, they can’t get enough to eat. They don’t even get enough water to drink, because Israel hogs that.

They might as well enjoy the affection and physical beauty of their spouses and lovers, and have some more kids to keep them company. At least, with all the ugliness and destitution the Palestinians have to endure in Gaza, they can make love and have children. Children can bring beauty and humor and a sense of purpose to life. Do we begrudge the Palestinians even this? Must they simply endure Israel’s steady mass murder without asserting themselves as living people even in this basic way? Israel wants them simply to sit in the dark and die without complaint.

Israel is a gigantic, stinking, fat ogre that sits on Palestine and grunts and farts as the Palestinians are crushed and suffocated underneath.

In the usual way in the Zioist media, the subtext of this piece is anti-Palestinian. Viewed from a world historical perspective, the largest increases in population occur in the poor countries, and decrease as a country becomes more economically developed.  So Africa has the largest population increase and Europe has a negative increase.

Israel, in preventing the development of the Palestinian economy, and destroying what has developed, is fomenting the increase in Palestian population, which can only be solved either by economic development, or by Israeli ethnic cleansing.

Since the Israeli power structure, and all its major parties, and the Zionist influenced American power structure, prefer Israeli expansion to Israeli security, US-Israeli power is historically on a track to increased ethinic cleasning, not only of Occupied Territories, but of Palestinians in Israel proper.  Israel currently has the largest eocnomic inequality of any developed country, and the population growth rate reflects the economic oppression.

No way is the Israeli-Palestinian problem going to be solved. One state solution: Jews are overwhelmed by the fast-growing Arab population, as your article indicates is happening in Gaza. Two-state solution: Israel is threatened by many more rockets from the West Bank than Hamas has ever fired from much smaller Gaza. Plus A couple of hundred thousand Jewish settlers on the West Bank refuse to be moved and have enough political and military connections with the Israeli centers of power so they can’t be moved. Some kind of land swap might be possible. But that again raises the possibility of more rocket attacks on Israel, and given the Gaza rockets, Israeli Jews probably aren’t going to allow it. Where does all this leave us? More than sixty years after the founding of Israel, there’s no indication that enough Arabs are willing to accept the existence of Israel to make peace possible. And the Israelis, knowing this, are not about to give very much if anything. Good luck George Mitchell.

Hey, could this help explain why Israel keeps accidentally-on-purpose killing such a high proportion of women and children with its precision weaponry? “Oops — sorry! We just killed some more demographic problems (— er, we mean, kids)! Ha, ha!”

Population boom in Gaza? No problem, Israel will help out with that.