The Biggest Show In Town

The UN has the civilian death toll in Gaza at 25%. A leading Palestinian Human Rights group has placed the figure at as high as 40%. The International Red Cross and Crescent is just running around pulling their collective hair out.

Of course, those figures are based on actual corpses and do not include those that may still be buried beneath tons of rubble.

Nothing goes in – no humanitarian aid, no foreign journalists. It’s just 139 square miles of blackout and blood. And to be quite honest with you, both sides, Israeli hardliners and Hamas’ jackass leadership, can go and collectively fuck themselves.

With ‘actionable’ targets dwindling for the Israeli air force to strike, the IDF started shelling northern Gaza, after which a small contingent of military personnel and vehicles crossed the border intent on capturing areas from which rocket attacks have been emanating. Hamas’ determination to continue firing rockets into Israel has been no less fierce, resulting in the injury of two people in Ashdod today.

Despite the fact that President Bush, who has mere weeks left in his second term, is due to announce that the United States is attempting to lead a diplomatic effort to achieve a ceasefire, the US used its position as a permanent member of The Security Council to block an attempt by the Arab League to push through a legally binding ceasefire resolution claiming that it lacked vital language regarding the cessation of rocket attacks against Israel.

According to The Independent, a recent survey conducted by Haaretz concluded that 71% of Israelis support the continuation of air strikes, with 21% backing a ground invasion. A similar number of Israelis favour supporting a ceasefire.

My personal solution is quite simple. Snow. If only five feet of it could fall throughout the region the entire place would be paralyzed, forcing all of this nonsense to stop. In fact, maybe they could lob snowballs at each other instead. Yes, I know, entirely unrealistic and disturbingly bon mot given the gravity of the situation. But a fellow can dream. And it beats the shit out of seeing images and reading reports about the death of children.