Reason for Gaza Massacre: Hamas destruction NOT 20 Israeli rocket deaths in 8 yrs

This tells something about the "democratic values" of the US, UK, Israeli and Australian Governments.

Hamas (whether people like it or not) was democratically elected to the Occupied Palestine "Parliament" in 2006 in a landslide victory in elections held for a captive people under Occupier guns - Hamas won 76 out of 132 seats (see : Hamas landslide election ).

The Israelis promptly arrested as many elected Hamas politicians as they could, the remainder fled to Gaza; Hamas put down a US-Israeli-backed Fatah revolt in Gaza but Gaza was then subject to US-, UK-and Australa-backed blockade and starvation by the Israelis (a war crime) who now evidently want to "finish the job" by the Gaza Massacre and Gaza Invasion.

Gaza deaths so far about 5,000 in ONE WEEK versus 20 Israeli deaths from rockets (plus 8 Gaza mortar deaths) from Gaza in EIGHT YEARS, a Them/Us "death ratio" of 500/28 = 17.9 i.e. about EIGHTEEN Occupied Palestinian deaths in ONE WEEK for every Israeli killed by rockets or mortars from Gaza since the Second Intifada began.

This US-, UK-, Australia-backed atrocity has a resprisals "death ratio" nearly TWICE that ordered by Hitler for civilian reprisals for German deaths in Italy and executed in the Ardeatine Massacre in Rome, Iraly in March 1944 (335 Italian men and boys shot as a reprisdal for 33 Nazi German soldiers killed by Italian partisans (see : 10 to 1 death ratio in Nazi German Ardeatine Massacre reprisals ).

It should be noted that this report is from what is arguably Australia TOP quality daily newspaper, The Sydney Melbourne Herald.

The SMH says, QUOTE: "Tel Aviv's early insistence that this massive military exercise was about putting a halt to Palestinian rockets being fired into or near communities in the south of Israel never rang true.

Measure it by the number of rockets - 8000-plus over eight years - and indeed it sounds like a genuine existential threat. Consider the toll - 20 Israeli deaths spread over eight years, which is about half the number of deaths in just a month of Israeli traffic accidents - and it all loses its oomph as a causus belli.

Israel does not want to deal with Hamas - it wants to annihilate the Islamist movement." END QUOTE

To forestall the usual knee-jerk, abusive, pro-Zionist responses to this in their tracks, the Director, Corporate Affairs, for Fairfax Media, publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age (arguably Australia's 2 top quality newspapers) is a top Jewish American journalist, Bruce Wolpe.

Bruce Wolpe served for many years as Legislative Director to Rep. Henry Waxman of California, and was a partner in a Washington government relations firm. He has been involved in several US political campaigns for Democratic candidates and was used as a source of expert opinion during the recent US presidential race (see: Jewish American Bruce Wolpe & the Sydney Morning Herald ).