re: #52 Walter L. Newton

Well… a NPR reader knows the answer…

“”The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” Dov Weisglass, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, told the Israeli media. Quote from a few years ago but still the Isreali objective just like the Nazis did feed the just just enough so they could still do work in the forced labor camps.”

I think it is sort of a truism of our age that if you want to get at the unvarnished truth of a matter, the place you go to look is NOT the comments section of any major media outlet.