Old-fashioned anti-Semitism for progressive thinkers

[azurnoir]

34. far most recently Israel has been responsible for the deaths of nearly 500 Palstinian children

but yet you seem to be the only one going on about a supposed 160 children mentioned in a paper written by Nicholas Pelham in 2011 for some reason leading to ask : exactly who's deflecting here and from what exactly?



have you actually read Pelhams paper BTW or just what Jpost and other Rightist sources say about it?, I have and Pelham contradicts himself, it's an interesting read it goes into how tunnel workers in Gaza made more than facotry workers in the West Bank and working in the tunnels was one of the pitifully few means of gainful employment in Gaza

first Pelham states this :

Once in control of the commercial tunnels, the Hamas government set about formalizing the smuggling economy through regulation. In the wake of Operation Cast Lead, the Interior Ministry established the Tunnel Affairs Commission (TAC) to act as the regulatory authority for commercial activities. Among its first acts was to issue a list of blacklisted imports, including weapons, alcohol, and tramadol, a painkiller much used in Gaza. In response to public concern at a rising toll of tunnel casualties, particularly of child workers, the TAC issued guidelines intended to ensure safe working conditions. Over time, it fenced off the site and stationed some three hundred black-clad internal-security personnel at entry points to spot-check the documentation of persons entering and leaving the zone. Tunnel openings were patrolled on motorbike. The TAC introduced a tunnel-licensing system to prevent construction in areas deemed of national security (particularly near border fortifications where outside observation was feared, or in areas reserved for factional tunneling) and to regulate oversupply. Investors seeking clearance to build a new tunnel were required to provide proof of land ownership or notarized proof of authorization of the right to use the land. The TAC also intervened to arbitrate disputes between merchants and tunnel operators, and monitored the market for instances of sharp inflation or evidence of hoarding and price-fixing, particularly of fuel. Traders and consumers alike said they welcomed the price stabilization and removal of petty traders selling gasoline from the roadsides.

Violations were punished. In 2009–10, for instance, the TAC closed at least five tunnels for smuggling tramadol and two for nonpayment of cigarette taxes. It destroyed an additional fifty nonoperational tunnels to prevent their use as safe houses or conduits to and from Egypt by “wanted” individuals. “We used to earn thousands smuggling small shipments of hand guns, grenades, bullets, and TNT,” said a tunnel operator who first entered the business at the end of the second intifada, “but it is no longer worth the risk to be prosecuted by Hamas.”

http://www.palestine-studies.org/jps/fulltext/42605

then a number of paragraphs later near the end of the paper makes the claim Jpost advertises a conclusion he reaches after accompanying one police patrol, also what is not stated is how any of these children died or how many of them died in the frequent IDF bombing runs on the tunnels