“Gaza … is a maximum-security facility. It is difficult to visit and impossible to leave."

[kpete]

Quote For The Day (Cold-hearted truths)
JUL 16 2014 @ 1:15PM

“Gaza … is a maximum-security facility. It is difficult to visit and impossible to leave. We allow in essential food, water, and electricity so that the prisoners don’t die. Apart from that, we don’t really care about them—that is unless they approach the prison fence, or the “forbidden” perimeter, where anyone who wanders too close is shot, or if they try to throw something over the fence. Indeed, they occasionally throw some homemade bombs made of things they’ve managed to smuggle into prison, and when they fall on our heads, it is really unpleasant. So we send our snipers to the watchtowers built around the prison and shoot them like fish in a barrel until they calm down. And when they finally do calm down, we cease firing because we are not the kind of bastards who shoot people for fun,” – Noam Sheizaf.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/07/why_i_object_to_israel_s_military_campaign_in_gaza_israel_turned_the_occupied.html

[Ed Suspicious]

1. Powerful commentary. Accurate.

[Electric Monk]

2. That's in Slate? Wow, that's almost mainstream media.

[cali]

3. yes. and this is why the line about how Israel left Gaza is so specious

From day one of the departure, onerous conditions were imposed. It's an open air prison.