Back in the fall I wrote an article about the deteriorating situation in Gaza in the aftermath of the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit, Operation Summer Rain, the destruction of the electric transformer, weapons smuggling from Egypt and the continued firing of rockets into southern Israel and particularly into S'derot and even Ashkelon. Since that time a Palestinian Unity government was formed. However, fighting in Gaza has intensified between Hamas and Fatah factions. Rockets are launched with increasing frequency from Gaza and caused twenty injuries on Tuesday. The people of Gaza have little food, limited mobility and very high unemployment. It is likely that a much greater disaster will follow unless there is some action to eliminate the fighting in Gaza, to eliminate the rocket fire from Gaza, and to enable the feuding Palestinians to look beyond the parties directly at the grave needs of their people. As for Israel, it is bathing in scandal and charges of gross ineptitude affixed firmly to the Prime Minister and his Defense Minister for the disastrous conduct of the Lebanon War by Olmert's own hand picked Winograd Commission. It is a very dangerous time!
Larry Snider
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