"The United Nations drastically underestimated the devastation that could result from possible assaults by Israel on Gaza this year, with 350,000 people so far displaced from a six-week-old conflict -- seven times the 50,000 foreseen in its contingency plan, the top Unicef official for the crowded Palestinian enclave said Wednesday.
"The official, Pernille Ironside, also said that if the severe Israeli trade constraints on Gaza were not relaxed, a preliminary analysis showed it could take 18 years to rebuild destroyed housing, furthering the prospect that young Gazans would reach adulthood in deprivation, anger and despair."
The pack of lies that Netanyahu rode into this latest massive invasion has been repeatedly exposed outside the mainstream media. The Nation magazine, definitely not mainstream, published an editorial that summarized all of the lies.
This exposure now goes into the record. In time, accounts, like the one from Nation, will reach the mainstream:
"Reflexive US support for Israel by politicians from both parties is of long vintage and no surprise to anyone. Even so, it was shocking and shameful to hear White House and US diplomats repeatedly voice support for Israel's 'right to defend itself' as it rained bombs and missiles down on the people of Gaza.
"Much of the US media repeated tired cliches about the 'cycle of violence,' as if the conflict began when three Israeli teens were kidnapped and murdered. But lost in the media frenzy was the deeper context to this latest round of bloodshed. The collapse of the ill-starred peace process in the spring had created a dangerous vacuum. ...
"The [Israeli] government saw its opportunity in the kidnapping of the three teens [in the Hebron region]: although Israeli police were almost certain within days that the teens had been murdered -- and almost certainly by freelance thugs rather than Hamas operatives -- the Shin Bet placed a gag order on the media so that it could round up hundreds of Hamas members.
"At the same time, the government ginned up a #BringBackOurBoys campaign -- a cruel deception of the anguished parents, but also part of a strategy to foment public hysteria against Palestinians in general and Hamas in particular."
Israel's grip on the western mindset with lies like those summed above, cannot live on Paul Newman's Exodus inspiration forever.
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