The prisoner exchange as part of the Gaza Incursion cease fire has lead Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, to denounce the state of the prisoners Hamas had. Netanyahu called the images of the released prisoners “shocking.”
Did anyone point out to the Israeli PM that his forces were bombing the shit out of any place those prisoners could have been kept? That his forces were preventing food, water, electricity, and medicine from reaching anyone in Gaza? Does anyone think that if Hamas had declared a building a safe zone because the hostages were being held there, that that building would have been safe from bombing?
Simultaneously the situation of detained Palestinians by Israeli security forces in Gaza and the West Bank has been decried for decades. Palestinians are maimed in custody, many die in custody. And Netanyahu has the audacity to whine about the treatment of Israeli prisoners?
Amazing. An honest man would have admitted that he could have expected no less because of his administration’s horrid history of detentions without trial, torture, and murder and the merciless bombing of every building in the entire Strip; that it was time to turn over a new leaf and live according to the highest morals of his religion. I guess he wouldn’t say such things as he doesn’t want Hell to freeze over.
Uncommon Sense 