TEL AVIV, December 31, 2008 (WAFA)- Haaretz Israeli Daily Newspaper said in an article written by Gideon Levy that the Israeli Air Forces are the “bullies of the clear blue skies”. 

Haaretz said that on “Black Saturday,” Israeli Air Forces set out to bomb the graduation ceremony for young police officers who had found that rare Gaza commodity, a job, massacring them by the dozen. They bombed a mosque, killing five sisters of the Ba’lousha family, the youngest of whom was 4. They bombed a police station, hitting a doctor nearby; she lies in a vegetative state in Shifa Hospital, which is bursting with wounded and dead. They bombed a university, and destroyed student dormitories. They dropped hundreds of bombs out of blue skies free of all resistance.

Haaretz went on, “they did not, and could not, distinguish between a Hamas official and his children, between a traffic cop and a Qassam launch operator, between a weapons cache and a health clinic, between the first and second floors of a densely populated apartment building with dozens of children inside.

Affirming that about half of the people killed were innocent civilians, the paper said that the pilots' accuracy is not the problem; it cannot be otherwise when the weapon is a plane and the objective is a tiny, crowded strip of land. He described Israeli pilots as “bullies”; as in training flights, they bomb undisturbed, facing neither an air force nor defense system.

The paper wondered if the pilots think about their victims, the children of refugees whose parents and grandparents have already been driven from their lives, if they think about the thousands of people they have left permanently disabled in a place without a single hospital worthy of the name and no rehabilitation centers at all, if they think about the burning hatred they are planting not only in Gaza but in other corners of the world amid the horrific images on television.

The article added that, “maybe if they were to confront the results of their work even once they would regret their decisions, they would reconsider the effects of their actions.”

If they were to go just once to Jerusalem's Alyn Hospital Pediatric and Adolescent Rehabilitation Center, where for nearly three years Marya Aman, 7, has been hospitalized, the Daily continued explaining that she is a quadriplegic who runs her wheelchair, and her life, with her chin; they would be shocked. This adorable little girl was hit by a missile in Gaza that killed almost her entire family, “the handiwork of our pilots” it commented.