Flustered Israel to intensify Gaza siege, threatens Iran with ballistic missiles

Israel is going to release a list of the prisoners that Hamas wanted freed as part of the prisoner exchange.

And what exactly is the point the Israelis are trying to make? Oh yes, to show the world that the prisoners have 'blood on their hands'.

Well, indeed some of them might - but that's hard to tell as they are sentenced in Israeli military courts which would not be recognised as real courts of justice in any part of the world, except maybe down at Guantanamo. But most fair-minded people would agree that they have no where near as much blood on their hands as the war criminals of the so called Israeli Defence Force.

In response to their disastrously inept negotiating, the Israelis are now telling the world that they intend to maintain their inhuman blockade of Gaza as collective punishment of the Palestinian people, all for the sake of one prisoner of war. They really do know how to do 'disproportionate'.

Meanwhile Israel has let it be known that have long-range ballistic missiles targeted on Iran. The Jericho missiles carry 750kg conventional warheads but naturally could just as easily carry nuclear ones. So they are willing to create a nuclear holocaust (I think that is a realistic description) because Iran wants to develop and deploy the same nuclear power that western nations have. The Israelis are worried that air strikes would fail to make much of a dent on the sub-mountain sites at Natanz, Esfahan and Arak where Iran has thoughtfully built its most sensitive nuclear installations such as the centrifuge arrays for producing enriched uranium.

Netanyahu's rabble and the west seem to be falling out before his racist government even gets into office. Uzi Arad, likley to be the prime minister in the new extreme right government, has been refused a visa to enter the US because he is 'a security risk'.

Israel needs to be very careful not to bite the hand that feeds it.

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