the IDF's own rabbinate encouraged "Cast Lead" soldiers to treat the Palestinians like the Biblical Philistines (who the Biblical "heroes" Shamgar, Samson & Saul slaughtered without restraint - Judges 3 & 15-16, 1 Samuel 14, etc.), http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058758.html;the IDF encouraged the use of reckless force & the deliberate targetting of civilians in Gaza, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6715417.ece;weapons used in "Cast Lead", & before, have left significant toxic soil contamination which is feeding into the human food chain, http://www.countercurrents.org/manduca171209.htm & causing abnormally high rates of birth defects, http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/gazaoneyearon/2009/12/2009122712921463480.html;deliberate destruction of water supply & sewage infrastructure in Gaza, both before & during "Cast Lead", & their inability to repair infrastructure because of the blockade, has led to a significant, & increasing, threat to Gazans' water supply & health, http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m62636;since before "Cast Lead" the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza has decimated the Gazans' fishing industry, all but cutting them off from a valuable food source, http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10015.shtml;the almost total blockade since "Cast Lead" has been accompanied by deliberate attacks on agricultural targets, significantly reducing the ability of Gazans to grow their own food, http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11074.shtml;Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has been reported by the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Erdogan, (& many less prominent people) as threatening to use nuclear weapons in Gaza, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123646.html.

Gildas Sapiens, oppressors.org