CNN: US weapons 'killing innocent civilians' in Gaza

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As Israeli warplanes continue to bomb Gaza, attention is turning to the role of American-made weapons in the deadly attacks, which have now killed over 400 and wounded 2000, including many civilians.

CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr believes that Israel's use of American weapons against civilians "is becoming very problematic." She notes, for example, that the 2000 pound bomb which killed a Hamas leader and members of his family on Thursday "is part of the billions of dollars that Israel has spent buying weapons from the United States."

Israel's use of American-made weapons in attacking Gaza has been a matter of offical concern for years. In 2002, the State Department announced it was monitoring possible violations of the Arms Export Control Act after the Israeli military used an American-made jet to drop a laser-guided bomb that killed a Hamas leader and 14 civilians in a crowded Gaza City neighborhood.

Just last September, Congress approved a $77 million dollar deal to sell a thousand Boeing GBU-39 bunker-buster "smart bombs" to Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday that these small, GPS-guided missiles have now been used on underground tunnels and launchers in Gaza.

"Precision guided bombs are only precision in that they hit the target they are aimed at," Starr explained. "We're getting these civilian casualties. These weapons are supposed to be used for a country's self-defense. Israel, obviously, believes this is its self-defense against Hamas, but you see these civilian casualties. That's not why the US sells weapons abroad -- for the killing of innocent civilians."

"The world community only is going to stand for this for so long," continued Starr. "It's this reason that you're seeing people look for a political settlement." She added that Israel now intends to launch a ground campaign in Gaza to "get rid of Hamas once and for all," but -- as the US has learned in Iraq and Afghanistan -- it is impossible to wipe out an insurgency by military force along without first getting the civilian population on your side.


This video is from CNN's American Morning, broadcast Jan. 2, 2008.

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Hamas Is The Boy Who Cried Wolf. When Will These Extremist Idiots Learn When You Stop Launching Rockets At Innocent People, You Will Not Be Attacked In Such A Devastating Way. Enough Is Enough. Palastinian People Must Eliminated Hamas Completely If They Want To Live In Peace.

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Also weapons don't kill people it's the people using them that do.

It's very easy to point the finger at Hamas as the bad guy, especially when Bush and the MSM parrot the same line. What you have to look at are the root causes of Hamas' violence and if you think it is because they are Islamic nutcases you are either ill informed or racist. Use your brains instead of believing the bullshit the media tell you FFS!

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Hamas Is The Boy Who Cried Wolf. When Will These Extremist Idiots Learn When You Stop Launching Rockets At Innocent People, You Will Not Be Attacked In Such A Devastating Way. Enough Is Enough. Palastinian People Must Eliminated Hamas Completely If They Want To Live In Peace.

Why Israel does not want to go straight forward to the natural solution of the Middle-East problem: end of occupation? Remember, Arafat was also said to be a problem to peace.Arafat died in 2004. Five years later, how much has been achieved by Mahmood Abbas? Since then, hundreds of new settlements have been built on the occupied territories. The American opinion must decide that support to Israel must end. Israel has become a dangerous creation and a peace problem for all of us, jews and non jews.

I think most of American's and Europian belive all what Israli says. Thy don't even care about what is happining to children and civilan in Gaza.

They forget that Israial stopped food and medicin to enter in Gaza for 7 months. What they excpect hamas will do?

http://www.presstv.ir/

The media are not lying but failing to report the complete story.

Is that the same thing in the end?

israel has no friend & no allies. it has only enemies & slaves. the USA & , canada & europe are its slaves and the rest of the world are its enemies. better be a free enemy than a slave ally.

Who told you that Hamas is responsible for firing rockets?

So, you have to believe them right?


Well, there are allegations that in fact some of the rockets are fired by Israeli special ops as the rockets are clearly coming from areas the Israelis currently hold.