‘We are farmers. We are not resistance’ And 29 were killed. (Journalism lives again)

Are there reasons to care about newspapers? Yes, and here is one. A triumph of reporting by the Washington Post's Jonathan Finer, from Zaytoun, Gaza, reconstructing the deadly cordoning of the Samouni family by Israeli soldiers a week into the "war", because their houses were in a strategic location. 92 family members are incarcerated. 29 die. Which is why we don't call it a war on this site, but an assault. Finer's exploration was on the front page of the Washington Post today. The world is changing. I believe it was the Washington Post that a few weeks back celebrated as one of the finest books of the year the military history, 1948, by Benny Morris–a work of historical archaeology that pointedly refused to interview Arabs about their experience of the Nakba. Here Finer has interviewed many many Arabs.   (Phil Weiss)