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.
A 'pipeline to ship blood'? Could be, but that's an ancient, archetypical image. From Wikipedia –
'Blood libels against Jews are false accusations that Jews use human blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays. Blood libel accusations have often asserted that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel_against_Jews
What a ridiculous myth. Anyone can see that the blood of Arab children is especially coveted.
Yup. We definitely value Arab children more than anyone else. What's the fatality rate?
Obviously, many IDF soldiers have been killed by PA police since 2000, whether in uniform or moonlighting for Hamas/Jihad/al-Aksa. So the WB&Gaza police forces are the origin of "resistance", and Hamas-affiliated police constitute a normal, legal target of war. Given that Hamas regards Israeli toddlers as such, a fortiori.
Into genocide? More viewing pleasure…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPEl0tNuLlU&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2wQ2GGlFLg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m877b6amEY0&feature=related
At least 446 people, including 168 soldiers and 226 militants, had been killed in the fighting during the 105-day siege of the camp. Between 400 and 500 soldiers had been wounded and more than 215 militants had been captured. The military death toll is very significant for a small country like Lebanon, which has a total population of only four million people. On a per capita basis the death toll for Lebanon in three and a half months is more than three times the death toll of US soldiers in Iraq in the past four and a half years.[1]
Twelve Lebanese civilians were killed in terrorist bombings in and around Beirut, two soldiers and five militants were killed in the Ain al-Hilweh camp, seven non-Fatah Islamic militants were killed during a raid in Tripoli, and six U.N. soldiers were killed, while two were wounded in the bombing attack on the Israeli-Lebanon border.
54 civilians were killed in the fighting at the camp and in Tripoli, 47 of them Palestinians.
Most of the some 31,000 Palestinians that lived at the camp fled the fighting to other camps in the country.
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZvtEmg9Iu0&feature=related
4 March 1992 Houston Chronicle: Armenians killed >1,000 Azerbaijani civilians in Khodzhaly.
Congo-Brazzaville (1997-99)
Coup and civil war
23 May 1999 Denver Rocky Mtn News: 10,000 (1997-99)
Agence France Presse (2 Dec. 1997): 4,000 to 10,000 (4 months)
Amnesty International ([link to amnesty.org
2,000 killed in fighting between supporters of Kolelas and government, 11/93-12/93
15,000 killed 6/97-10/97 by supporters of former President Lissouba (citing 1998 government report)
2,000 civilians killed Makélékélé and Bacongo districts 12/98-1/99
Indonesia (1999- )
Moluccas, or Spice Islands. Christians v. Moslems
Ploughshares 2000: 2,000-4,000
28 April 2002 CNN: 5,000-9,000 [link to cnn.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxJk-Q0QRWA
Yup, good company Israel keeps, isn't it?
Not as bad as the Congo, eh?
The Palestinians don't know how lucky they have it.