LRB has a powerful collection of contributors condemning the slaughter. Excerpts:
Yitzhak Laor:
Israel is engaged in a long war of annihilation against Palestinian
society. The objective is to destroy the Palestinian nation and drive
it back into pre-modern groupings based on the tribe, the clan and the
enclave. This is the last phase of the Zionist colonial mission…
society. The objective is to destroy the Palestinian nation and drive
it back into pre-modern groupings based on the tribe, the clan and the
enclave. This is the last phase of the Zionist colonial mission…
Michael Wood:
If self-defence includes the bombing of ambulances and feeling no
qualms about a death toll that is a third children, then we have
entered a moral territory from which there may be no return.
qualms about a death toll that is a third children, then we have
entered a moral territory from which there may be no return.
David Bromwich:
American politicians exhibit an identification with Israel that is now
in excess of the measurable effects of the Israel lobby…. Yet grant the potency of the
lobby and the identification – even so, the arrogance with which Israel
dictates policy is hard to comprehend on the usual index of motives.
Ehud Olmert boasted to a crowd in Ashkelon on 12 January that with one
phone call to Bush, he forced Condoleezza Rice to abstain from voting
for the UN ceasefire resolution she herself had prepared. The depth,
the efficacy, and the immediacy of the influence are treated by Olmert
as an open secret.
in excess of the measurable effects of the Israel lobby…. Yet grant the potency of the
lobby and the identification – even so, the arrogance with which Israel
dictates policy is hard to comprehend on the usual index of motives.
Ehud Olmert boasted to a crowd in Ashkelon on 12 January that with one
phone call to Bush, he forced Condoleezza Rice to abstain from voting
for the UN ceasefire resolution she herself had prepared. The depth,
the efficacy, and the immediacy of the influence are treated by Olmert
as an open secret.
Tariq Ali:
The war on Gaza has killed the two-state solution by making it clear to
Palestinians that the only acceptable Palestine would have fewer rights
than the Bantustans created by apartheid South Africa. The only
acceptable alternative is a single state for Jews and Palestinians with
equal rights for all.
Palestinians that the only acceptable Palestine would have fewer rights
than the Bantustans created by apartheid South Africa. The only
acceptable alternative is a single state for Jews and Palestinians with
equal rights for all.
