Looking for an excuse
The information below reminds one of the Gujarat genocide, also carried out by the state government of Gujarat with the approval of the federal BJP goverment in New Delhi. That genocide was organized weeks, in fact months, in advance. Such is the cunning of vested interest professional politicians and fundamentalists. - WPA
Xymphora
June 30, 2006
From Haaretz.com (Mazuz is the Israeli Attorney General; my emphasis in red):
"The detention of Hamas parliamentarians in the early hours of Thursday morning had been planned several weeks ago and received approval from Mazuz on Wednesday. The same day, Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin presented Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with the list of Hamas officials slated for detention."
In other words, Israel used the Palestinian attack on the Israeli military post as an excuse to do what it was looking for an excuse to do, arrest a democratically elected government and destroy Palestinian access to electricity. And the world sits back and lets it happen.