The latest in Gaza

I can't ignore this story that's going on in Israel any more. I've been hearing about it, but now I saw and read this article regarding the withdrawal of Israeli 'settlers' from the Gaza Strip. Some are being removed forcibly by their own army. This saddens me greatly. There are a couple of dynamics at work here and I have found a couple of quotes in this article which display the bias inherent in the media and also the attitude of the 'Palestinians' (really Israeli and Jordanian Arabs) towards Israelis and Jews in general.

One woman wept and shouted, "I don't want to! I don't want to!" as four female soldiers, each grabbing a limb, carried her out of her home in Neve Dekalim, the largest Gaza settlement.

In one synagogue, radical youths who had slipped into the main settlement bloc sang the haunting melody some Jews sang on their way to Nazi gas chambers.

- Now this is just plain sad.

NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli troops dragged settlers screaming and sobbing from homes and synagogues on Wednesday, beginning a forced evacuation of Gaza settlements after nearly four decades of occupation.

- This from the beginning paragraph of the article where Reuters clearly states that the Israelis were occupiers. This displays the obvious media bias against Israelis and Jews in general, by invoking the oft used 'occupier' term to label them. Never mind that it was Egyptian (no such country as Palestine) land ceded to Israel in a cease fire agreement after Israel captured it in the 1967 war. Nope, they're just Jew occupiers. According to this reasoning, Spaniards are occupying Moorish land and Arabs are occupying ancient Bedouin land.

Palestinians, who see settlements as the most hated symbol of occupation, watched and cheered from nearby rooftops.

- and of course, the 'Palestinians' show their true feelings towards the Jews, as if they haven't done so a hundred thousand times previous to this. Now look at this objectively, would you cheer if someone was being forcefully removed from your neighborhood? Just don't seem very Christian to me. Oh wait...never mind...

Now I don't know where this is all going, I'll leave all the prognosticating and theorizing to people who know more about the politics of the conflict over there, but this is my blog and well I just felt like saying something.