General Fraser is George Bush’s envoy monitoring compliance–non-compliance–with the road map. Yesterday the religiously-crazed Jewish colonists of Hebron rammed the envoy’s convoy with another vehicle. There is just this sketchy report, which I gather comes from Haaretz. Can you imagine how big the headlines would be if Palestinians did this to American officials? Our journalism is broken.
Speaking of Haaretz, here is Bradley Burson reacting to the latest destruction of a Palestinian family:
It is time for us to stop "understanding" why we kill so many Palestinian civilians. It is time for us to stop explaining away the deaths we excuse as the unfortunate and incidental by-product of a terrible war.
If it had been only an isolated incident, a tragic aberration, I would have kept my peace, said nothing, just moved on.
But the same crime, the same – let’s call it by its real name –
atrocity, has been committed time and again, under the same
circumstances, for the same reasons, with the same indefensible result.
Meanwhile Jimmy Carter is isolated in our country for describing Israel’s actions as state-sponsored terrorism, while Slate runs a story on a week-long "terror tour," approved by the Israeli government, to show how they are fighting the evil Arabs. This is the essence of the Israel lobby: a newspaper there denounces Israeli atrocities, here we get spoonfed propaganda about the war on terror.
