Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The Telegraph's Tim Butcher is at it again. It's that story-line that's always good for column-space: The IDF, because, apparently, they had nothing better to do and no other targets, wantonly attacked British war graves in Gaza. And wuddayaknow? There were no legitimate targets there at all...oh no, never. A witness says so! Israel shelled UK war graves in Gaza
Representatives of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission expressed their "distress'" after The Daily Telegraph sent them photographs [Crack investigating there, my British friends! You really know how to 'dig up' a story! -S]of the latest damage at Gaza War cemetery.
The damage is much worse than that caused by Israeli forces in 2006 in an incident that briefly soured British-Israeli relations and led eventually to the Jewish state paying £90,000 in compensation...
...The staff who tend the cemetery, normally an oasis of calm and well-maintained order in the otherwise chaotic Gaza Strip, had to flee for their lives.
"I sent all the others away because the shelling got too heavy," said Ibrahim Jerradeh, 71, who was made MBE after tending the grave since 1958.
"Only when it got really close and started to hit the cemetery did I leave."
"There were no people here, just graves, so why does Israel fire on this place?" he said.
"It is just a graveyard for all people, why cannot Israel respect that?"...
So there was no one in the cemetery...but the staff had to go home when the shelling got close. Apparently they can take pictures, but they can't read their own quotes over there at the Telegraph. Amazing how, in report after report, the IDF keeps targeting places where no targets are...odd that. A real logic puzzle it is.
This is pure incitement on the part of Butcher and his paper, and we've seen it before: 'Gunmen' Blow up British Cemetery Monument in Gaza. Same old,l same very old, from Old Blighty.
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