Gold and Goldberg pick wrong side on Gaza slaughter

by Philip Weiss on December 29, 2008 · 2 comments

Here is the American Enterprise Institute's Jerusalem scholar, Dore Gold, trying to refute the obvious truth that Israel used "disproportionate force" in Gaza:

The charge that Israel uses disproportionate force keeps resurfacing whenever it has to defend its citizens from non-state terrorist organizations and the rocket attacks they perpetrate. From a purely legal perspective, Israel's current military actions in Gaza are on solid ground.

But who has kept the Palestinians from having a state for 60 years, the last 20 of them even as the Palestinians recognized the Israeli state? Who turned the Palestinians into non-state actors? This is a brutal catch-22. The same sort of brutal logic is evident in Jeffrey Goldberg's Gaza post, Goldberg who missed a golden opportunity to move even further center-left over the Gaza slaughter. He hardly shrugs over the destruction:

Israel must try to use all of the tools of national power to stop attacks on its citizens. Otherwise it is simply not a serious nation, one that does not deserve sovereignty.

And what about the Palestinian nation, which was supposed to be born at the same time as Israel in 1948 out of the same faith in the nation-state as the building block of international order, but whose existence Zionists have denied forever? Are Palestinians not serious? Does Angry at settlers and colonies mean you're not serious? Or that you don't deserve sovereignty over your lands? Who is more serious in Iraq, Sunnis or Shi'a?

Thanks to Jeff Blankfort.

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1 Ahmed Yusuf December 29, 2008 at 9:39 pm

Did anyone listen to 'All Things Considered' on NPR today? They had a Hamas official speak. Here is what he said, "This has nothing to do with rockets because there are no rockets fired." He later goes on to say that it is collaborators asked by Israel to fire rockets from Gaza.

Here is the link and judge for yourself.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98593877

2 Ahmed Yusuf December 29, 2008 at 9:57 pm

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