The current situation in the Gaza strip

I don't wish to become politicised or to get all political on your ass, I also am mindful of Bill Hicks' "Love all the People" ideas, which I agree with but in the past couple of days I have seen half a dozen photos of dead babies/children in the news papers, their little chubby fingers closed and sticking through rubble, or one particularly horrific photo in which a father on his knees over the bodies of three dead children pleads with the sky, what he pleads for I don't know but I'm sure you can imagine. In another image the bodies of a dozen or so dead policemen are laying were they fell, all inside 10 yards of one another, twisted, broken and un-natural. Whilst on the front page of a British dailys' supplement, one poor bastard reaches to the camera man for help, he's not looking at the lens he's looking right at the cameraman, his fingers burnt and bruised, I know he's fucked.

The invasion of Gaza by Israel is a disgrace and one which we should all be ashamed that our governments have encouraged or ignored the hellish situation that has been allowed to fester there over the years. It's no mistake that Israel has done this on the eve of the handing over of the US presidency to a less sympathetic administration. Israel complains of extremist Islam meanwhile it seems to be doing all it can to create extremisim, you simply cannot bomb and murder your way to any sort of resolution, Israel know this, so therefore they must have an alternative agenda.

Hamas on the otherhand have been firing missle across the border into Israel on a daily basis for years now, what the hell did they think was going to happen? Did they really think that Israel, an agresive state, backed by the most right wing U.S. government in history was going to let that continue unabated, it could be argued that if Israel, the U.S. and Europe recognised the legitimacy of Hamas when it was elected then perhaps they may have had other options. But thats all too late now.

The result is dead children, dead fathers, brothers, wives and sisters. Grief and grieving. Little chubby fingers poking up through the rubble and blood staining the dust and mortar from where you know the head is going be. There can be no winners here type Gaza into Google images and tell me its worth it.