Early on in the collective punishment of Gaza, I referred to IDF tactics as tantamount to a grouse shoot. Palestinians have nowhere to run. The world knows this. Equally, we could talk about ‘fish in a barrel’… Any way you put it, the killing is beyond barbaric.
Add to that the West’s attempt to assuage its guilt with
a trickle of aid while a. selling arms to Israel and b. refusing to call for an
immediate ceasefire and anyone with an ounce of humanity is feeling queasy.
Would-have-been-in-jail-by-now if not for the
invasion - Netanyahu -cares nothing either for the remaining Israeli hostages.
In the shoot anything that moves – or doesn’t – or is surrendering approach,
IDF actually gunned down, in cold blood, three who were clearly unarmed and
pleading in Hebrew. There is nothing about his destructive madness that makes
sense in the short, medium or long term.
However, for those who want to swallow Netanyahu’s
line that a huge proportion of the 34k dead people of Gaza are Hamas (which
gives this tiny population proportionately the largest fighting force that ever
existed – a fiction way beyond Blair and Bush’s fictional Iraq WMDs) let us
then simply ponder the 13k+ dead children.
For Western politicians to be crowing about an
infinitesimally small amount of aid while not just tolerating the slaughter but
abetting it is perhaps the most sordid, dishonest, nauseating humanitarian outrage
and immoral juxtaposition of the modern era.
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