It has been two weeks since Israel started pounding 350 square kilometer area of Gaza strip. The official death toll is 765 palestinians as a result of shelling and bombing which was targeting Hamas. About 250 of the deads are children.

The advocates of Israel tell the world that Israelis phone Palestinians before attacking so that Palestinians can take shelter, wounded Palestinians are treated in top notch medical facilities of Israel and Israel takes all the precautions to avoid the common palestinians. Hamas fired over 6000 rockets into Israel since 2005.

How many of the over 3000 wounded are being treated in top notch hospitals in Israel? Israel phones Palestinians to hide in shelters and then start shelling those shelters as many of the Palestinians died as a result of shelling of UN built shelters. Only bombardment by Israel in last few days is way more than that of 6000 rockets in three years. The comparison of death and destruction is not even possible.

Eric Margolis in his column “Israel strikes at Obama“,

“Israel believes its mighty information machine will allow it to weather the storm of worldwide outrage over its Biblical punishment of Gaza. Who remembers Israel’s flattening of parts of the rebellious Palestinian city of Jenin, or the U.S. destruction in Falluja, Iraq? As Stalin liked to say, “the dogs bark, and the caravan moves on.”

He further writes:

“Though Israel’s use of American weapons against Gaza violates the U.S. Arms Export Control and Foreign Assistance Acts, the docile U.S. Congress will remain mute. Hamas, the militant but democratically elected government of Gaza, is even less likely to compromise. Its rival, the lapdog Fatah regime on the West Bank installed by the U.S. and Israel after Arafat’s mysterious death, will be further discredited.

Syria has broken off peace talks with Israel. The Muslim world is in a rage. So what? As long as the U.S. gives Israel carte blanche, as the outgoing Bush administration did once more over Gaza, it can do just about anything it wants. Let the dogs bark. “

This is exactly what Israel is doing and US is poisoning relationships with Muslims around the globe to safe Israel’s interest in Middle East region. It did not matter before nor it will make any difference in future to Israel or US even if the rest of the world is against the attacks and wants it to stop.