How else to interpret the great Gideon Levy's metaphor for the slaughter: Israel constructing a pipeline to ship blood?
As Israel has been preoccupied with Gaza throughout
the entire week, nobody has asked whose blood is being spilled and why.
Everything is permitted, legitimate and just. The moral voice of
restraint, if it ever existed, has been left behind. Even if Israel
wiped Gaza off the face of the earth, killing tens of thousands in the
process, as a Chechnyan laborer working in Sderot proposed to me, one
can assume that there would be no protest.
They liquidated Nizar Ghayan? Nobody counts the 20 women and
children who lost their lives in the same attack. There was a massacre
of dozens of officers during their graduation ceremony from the police
academy? Acceptable. Five little sisters? Allowed.
the entire week, nobody has asked whose blood is being spilled and why.
Everything is permitted, legitimate and just. The moral voice of
restraint, if it ever existed, has been left behind. Even if Israel
wiped Gaza off the face of the earth, killing tens of thousands in the
process, as a Chechnyan laborer working in Sderot proposed to me, one
can assume that there would be no protest.
They liquidated Nizar Ghayan? Nobody counts the 20 women and
children who lost their lives in the same attack. There was a massacre
of dozens of officers during their graduation ceremony from the police
academy? Acceptable. Five little sisters? Allowed.
