This morning I was thinking that the Gaza slaughter is like Deir Yassin. For Deir Yassin was rationalized and still is as a security operation, eliminating a hostile village near Jerusalemm, and it killed a hecatomb, over 100 people. The Gaza slaughter is a hecatomb too. The foreign affairs editor of the Guardian agrees with me that this event will change the international political math:
Israel has supplied a rallying point. Something tangible and brutal
that gives the critics of its actions in Gaza – who say it has a policy
of collective punishment backed by disproportionate and excessive force
– something to focus on.
that gives the critics of its actions in Gaza – who say it has a policy
of collective punishment backed by disproportionate and excessive force
– something to focus on.
Something to be ranked with Deir Yassin.
With the Sabra and Shatila massacres. Something, at last, that Israel's
foes can say looks like an atrocity.
American foreign editors, please?
