Jewish Voice for Peace: Cutting Power to Gaza

The declared reasoning behind Israel's decision to cut off power to Gaza is absurd on its face. It was said that diminishing the supply of power to Gaza would force Hamas to choose between supplying power for Gaza's residents or for the missile launchers. While Hamas has not done anything to stop the missiles, it is also well known and universally agreed (including by Israeli military and political leaders) that Hamas is not firing the missiles. Thus, cutting the power will have effect on this.The idea that increasing the already monumental misery of the ordinary people of Gaza will cause them to rise up against their Hamas leaders is also absurd. In fact, it's the very definition of insanity--trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result the next time. So we hardly need the statements of Israel's military leaders that this is not actually intended to stop the missiles and protect the innocent people of Israel from attack. But there are reasons for Israel's decision.

One is to prepare the public ground for a massive incursion into Gaza. Read the whole article from Jewish Voice for Peace...