Experts Warn Situation In Gaza Will Get Worse Before It Gets Much Worse
GAZA CITY—Following three weeks of escalating bloodshed throughout the Gaza Strip, experts on the conflict warned Thursday that it will only get worse before it gets far worse. “With increasing bombardment and ground fighting, and no sign of a ceasefire in sight, it’s clear that the situation in Gaza will unfortunately continue to deteriorate before it can finally take a turn for the truly horrific,” said Institute for Palestine Studies senior fellow Nadia Hijab, predicting that, with the deaths of more than 1,300 people and the displacement of approximately 500,000 Palestinians, it seemed likely that the violence would only get more severe before the two sides are ultimately able to agree on intensifying it still further. “Neither Hamas nor Israeli forces are showing any sign of letting up, and I fear that only when this crisis reaches a low point will it finally descend to a point even lower than that.” Hijab added that, as the conflict continues to worsen, the United States may have no choice but to ramp up its effectively nonexistent diplomatic efforts and do absolutely nothing.
I would like to see an Onion piece titled —– “Scientists Confirm Palestinians Are The Dumbest Motherfuckers On The Planet”.
Putting ALL else aside, and looking at it only from a Common Sense angle.
—- Da Joos have fighter airplanes, bombs, heavy artillery, tanks, ships, radars, …. pretty much the latest and greatest everything.
—- Palestinians have piss ant “rockets”, some guns, suicide vests and felafels … ie, jack shit.
WTF is wrong wif these people?
Stuckie — sounds much like the plight of the “Native Americans,” about a hundred years ago. Doubt that our Zionist masters will have second thoughts & allow the surviving Palestinians to open casinos after the dust settles.
Looks as if the Onion has found experts who have a realistic opinion of the crisis.
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Gaza: The truth behind Israeli and Palestinian talking points
Why this fight now? Who started it? What happened with the kidnapped Israeli teens? Getting to the bottom of myths
Omar Baddar
Palestinians just endured an exceptionally brutal weekend: In Gaza, the death toll crossed the appalling benchmark of 1,000, overwhelmingly civilians. In the West Bank, Israeli soldiers and settlers also killed at least nine Palestinians amid protests against the devastation of Gaza. I recently debunked Israel’s misleading “human shields” argument attempting to deflect responsibility for the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians; but more important to expose is the false narrative of how we found ourselves in this crisis and who is responsible for its perpetuation.
Invisible Bias
For most media outlets, the current crisis began with the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in the West Bank. This is, of course, an arbitrary starting point. Just one day before the kidnappings, a Palestinian man and a 10-year-old child were killed in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike. Why wasn’t that the starting point of the violence? Has the media internalized Israel’s narrative to such an extent that they only see Israel as “responding” to violence rather than initiating it?
Israel initially blamed Hamas for the teens’ kidnapping, and “responded” by going on a violent rampage in the West Bank, invading homes, killing demonstrators, and arresting hundreds of Palestinians, including 60 Hamas members who had been freed in an earlier prisoner swap. Imagine the opposite scenario for a moment: When Israeli troops were caught on tape killing unarmed Palestinian teens just a few weeks before the kidnapping of the Israeli teens, imagine if Hamas responded by invading Israeli homes, shooting Israeli demonstrators and kidnapping hundreds of Israeli troops. Would media outlets cover such actions with the same sympathy and understanding afforded to Israel’s actions?
Hamas, Rockets and Kidnappings
We hear a lot about how many rockets Hamas fired, but rarely in a proper timeline. Hamas had been strictly observing a cease-fire agreement since it was brokered in 2012, and was even arresting Palestinian militants from rival factions who fired rockets at Israel as recently as last month. Hamas ultimately did resume firing rockets into Israel, but only after the massive crackdown Israel initiated against Hamas in the West Bank (and by some accounts, even after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza).
And it turns out the initial crackdown against Hamas was also without basis. Israeli officials now acknowledge, in direct contradiction to statements by Israel’s prime minister, that Hamas was actually not responsible for the kidnappings of the three Israeli teens after all. And this is not just a realization Israel made over the weekend: Israeli intelligence officers reportedly noted as early as June 30 that there was no evidence implicating Hamas as an organization.
Why Now?
Since Hamas did not initiate this confrontation, the question remains: Why did Israel pick this fight with them now? The answer requires a bit of context: For more than two decades, Palestinians and Israelis have been engaged in a so-called peace process, which aims to establish a Palestinian state on the occupied territories, the small areas from which Israel is legally required to withdraw. But that peace process failed time and again because Israel was never serious about allowing a viable Palestinian state to exist, and insisted on swallowing up more and more Palestinian land through relentless settlement expansion, in direct violation of international law. More recently, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu candidly (though only in Hebrew) ruled out the possibility of allowing a sovereign Palestinian state to exist.
But because global perceptions are important, Israel is always looking for a way to deflect responsibility for the failure of the peace process onto the Palestinians. One of the talking points used to that end is the claim that there is “no partner for peace” on the Palestinian side because the leadership was divided. So when Hamas and the Palestinian Authority agreed to end their division in recent months, Netanyahu’s government freaked out and demanded Western governments boycott the new united Palestinian leadership. When, to Netanyahu’s bitter disappointment, the U.S. insisted on dealing with the new Palestinian government anyway, Israel seems to have opted for a direct confrontation with Hamas to break up the unity government. One can see the cynical exploitation of the teens’ kidnapping to this end simply by looking at the Jerusalem Post headline, which reads: “Netanyahu to Kerry: PA’s Hamas-backed unity government to blame for missing teens.” Evidence for this sort of nonsense, of course, is nowhere to be seen.
Occupation and Self-Defense
Beyond the tit-for-tat of “who started it” many are busy debating, it is crucial to emphasize that Israel has illegally occupied the Palestinian territories for many decades, is actively engaging in land theft through illegal settlement expansion, and is imposing a system of apartheid. Under those circumstances, Israel’s very posture is offensive, and it cannot claim to be engaging in “self-defense” against the very people whose land it has illegally usurped.
To personalize this for a moment, imagine a bully sitting on a smaller child, and every time someone objects to the fact that the bully is beating the smaller child with an iron rod, the bully exclaims, “Well, he tried to slap me, so I was forced to defend myself.” No, you can’t claim that you’re beating the smaller child with an iron rod in self-defense, especially when you can end the entire confrontation simply by getting off him. Back to the political reality, Norman Finkelstein put it best: “The refrain that Israel has the right to self-defense is a red herring: the real question is, does Israel have the right to use force to maintain an illegal occupation? The answer is no.”
Israel’s Message to Palestinians
When you take into account everything I mentioned so far, you begin to realize that the ubiquitous talking point “Israel was forced to defend itself from Hamas rockets” is wrong on three counts: 1) This round of violence did not start with Hamas rockets; 2) Israel was not “forced” into this confrontation; and 3) Israel as the occupying power is certainly not “defending” itself.
Under these circumstances, the atrocious bombing of Gaza and the killing of hundreds of civilians makes clear that Israel’s message to Palestinians is this: You will live under our boot, occupied, besieged, dispossessed and humiliated without any semblance of freedom. On occasion, we may even go on a violent rampage against you, but you better not respond. Because if any of you ever dare respond to our violence with violence, we will be forced to “defend ourselves” by using our overwhelming military might to beat your entire society into submission.
Ending the Violence
By now, you’ve probably heard news outlets accuse both Israel and Hamas, on alternating occasions, of rejecting cease-fire proposals. The accusations against both are true, and this merely has to do with the terms of each proposal: Israel wants a cease-fire that effectively ends the fighting while allowing Israel to keep its boot on Gaza’s neck. Hamas, on the other hand, insists on some humanitarian conditions, including ending the siege and economic suffocation of Gaza, the introduction of international peacekeeping forces at Gaza’s borders, and the freeing of prisoners rounded up in recent weeks, many held without charge or trial.
Whatever cease-fire terms end up being accepted by both sides will only matter in the short term. In the long term, only true justice (an end to Israel’s occupation and apartheid) can end this conflict. Here, the responsibility of American citizens is paramount: If we can end our government’s unconditional military and diplomatic support for Israel’s most destructive policies, or condition such support on Israel abiding by its legal and moral obligations, we can begin to work toward that real justice all Israelis and Palestinians deserve.
Omar Baddar is a Middle East political analyst based in Washington, DC. You can follow him on Twitter at @OmarBaddar
I’m sure that clear thinking, fair and compassionate leaders on both sides of the equation will bring about peace any minute now.
As a sign of my sincere belief that this will happen, I’d be willing to hold bb’s head underwater until peace is achieved.
Stuckey,
I can tell you what is wrong with them. The members of Hamas are men who, however misguided their methods may be and however much I despise the Islamic jihad nonsense, refuse to live on their knees. They have been herded into a gigantic, fetid, fly blown concentration camp and stripped of everything worth living for by a bunch of crazed Zionists. True, their “military” response to this has its pathetic aspects, I regret the loss of life and I would like to see the fighting stop, but I can’t help but admire men who fight for their people even when the cause is hopeless. One day soon we may see if our own people have half the steel in their backs the men of Hamas have.
Stucky says:
I would like to see an Onion piece titled —– “Scientists Confirm Palestinians Are The Dumbest Motherfuckers On The Planet”.
Putting ALL else aside, and looking at it only from a Common Sense angle.
—- Da Joos have fighter airplanes, bombs, heavy artillery, tanks, ships, radars, …. pretty much the latest and greatest everything.
—- Palestinians have piss ant “rockets”, some guns, suicide vests and felafels … ie, jack shit.
WTF is wrong wif these people?
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Holy Shit Stuck we are on the same page, I think. The Joos have a kick ass military. Why does Hamas fuck with them? It’s pointless exercise of futility. Why put your women and children at risk?
Sage those ragheads are pussies. They hide in the shadow of women and children and shoot pop bottle rockets at a major military force. Steel in their backs? You’ve lost your God Damn mind! Why don’t they all grab an AK 47 and rush the IDF. Because they are pussies one and all.
Sage take the word Southern out of your handle it’s a fucking disgrace.
I am Southern to the fucking core. I live in the south, I breath the south, I understand the south. There’s nothing Southern about you Sage.
Sensetti says:
I am Southern to the fucking core. I live in the south, I breath the south, I understand the south. There’s nothing Southern about you Sage.
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You represent everything I dislike about the south.
Omar Baddar sounds like a real objective observer. Leader of Arab Anti-dicrimination organization, Etc.
I really loved his comments about Israel being in Palestine illegally, and that if they would only open the borders all would be fine.
What happened last time they opened te borders? Hamas imported the rockets and weapons they are now using against Israel. They also imported the concrete to build the tunnels that are now one of the central themes of this conflict.
Why isn’t the Arab anti-dscrimination organization screaming blue murder at the tens and hundreds of thousands of Muslims being killed in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc?
Umm, because it is Muslims killing Muslims, so that is ok? How loud would they scream if it were Muslims killing Israelis? How much outrage did I hear from the anti-discrimination organization when the three Israeli kids were taken? Or when the Chechens killed all those school kids? Or when the Paki extremists attacked India? Or when the Somalis are hijacking ships and kidnapping people?
What a fucking joke. Arab discrimination my fat hairy ass.
Muslims are behind almost all of the terrorism and war in the world, yet people believe it is different in Israel. Seriously, I am amazed at how gullible people are. No wonder the government gets away with so much – people are bat blind by and large.
If it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, I tend to assume it is a fucking duck.
But nope, there are folks that think it is a chicken despite the obvious indications it is a duck.
So, if Hamas had weaponry equal to IDF, they wouldn’t have to indiscriminately and deliberately murder civilians via suicide bombers or lopping off heads? Wrong. Islamic butchers are the same everywhere, and superior weaponry has nothing to do with their savagery. The mostly unarmed victims of Boko Haram could tell us all about it.
Fears are growing that Boko Haram terror group is using the 220 girls it abducted in Chibok last April as suicide bombers.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/boko-haram-mass-abduction-fears-chibok-girls-being-used-suicide-bombers-1459183
Dr. Ron Paul often speaks of “Just War” versus preemptive war. If a nation, village or an individual is attacked, Dr. Paul has said that self-defense is justified, so no doubt, he would agree that Boko Haram’s victims would be justified using what ever means necessary to defend themselves to repel and destroy those who attack. Make no mistake, Hamas is just as barbaric as Boko Haram.
I’ll never understand the nonsensical, irrational talk of “overkill” when an aggressor gets their ass kicked by intended victim. It’s down right hypocritical to speak of Israeli overkill, when each and every person posting here knows darn well that if or when they are ever attacked, the The Marquess of Queensberry rules shall not apply.
Yeah, Apocalypse Now is just a movie, but Colonel Kurtz’ describes why sane, rational people despise war and killing.
“It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror has a face. And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.”
“I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We’d left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio. And this old man came running after us, and he was crying. He couldn’t say. We went back there, and they (Vietcong guerrillas) had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were, in a pile – a pile of little arms. And I remember, I…I…I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget.”
“And then I realized – like I was shot, like I was shot with a diamond, a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, ‘My God, the genius of that. The genius.’ The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure! And then I realized, they were stronger than me because they could stand it. These were not monsters. These were men — trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts who have families, who have children, that they had the strength, the strength to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill – without feeling, without passion, without judgment – without judgment. Because it’s judgment that defeats us.” Col. Kurtz’, Apocalypse Now
I will respond to this bullshit later. One of my friends is a young Palestinian arab in Israel. He is a pharmacist. He told me just yesterday that one of his uncles was killed yesterday in the West Bank by Israeli police during a protest. He is a muslim, I am not, but he is a very bright and very nice young man and I worry about his safety daily…that he isn’t harmed by the jewish gangs that are beating up arabs in Israel with pipes and baseball bats while the police look on.
It really should not matter to me as an American because Israel is an unimportant country and if it disappeared tomorrow from the face of the earth it would be nothing to us, except for some arms exporters. It matters to me because that racist, ethnic cleaning, apartheid criminal regime would not exist if hadn’t corrupted American politics. If I were a Palestinian, I would fire rockets into it myself, and celebrate every time one of them actually hit something.
Death to Israel.
Wow. Great minds really do think alike.
Nancy Pelosi: Hamas is a humanitarian organization. Seriously. Her friends in Qatar told her so.
Please accept my apology for accidental Anonymous post. It’s after 1:00 AM here, past bed time.
@Zarathustra
Exhausted as I am, memory recalls you posting the very same BS sob story, almost word for word, not too very long ago. Lucky for you, it’s past my bed time. However, tomorrow’s another day.
Southern Sage says:
Stuckey,
I can tell you what is wrong with them. The members of Hamas are men who, however misguided their methods may be and however much I despise the Islamic jihad nonsense, refuse to live on their knees. They have been herded into a gigantic, fetid, fly blown concentration camp and stripped of everything worth living for by a bunch of crazed Zionists. True, their “military” response to this has its pathetic aspects, I regret the loss of life and I would like to see the fighting stop, but I can’t help but admire men who fight for their people even when the cause is hopeless. One day soon we may see if our own people have half the steel in their backs the men of Hamas have.
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Very well said.
Z one word for you MOVE
Headline just came across the TV. Congress approves money for Israel to reload Iron Dome.
Z you might want to just get the fuck out of the United States all together.
Here’s one Palestinians point of view
http://youtu.be/Qb2SHCSD74o
Israel will never pull back to the 67 borders, period. That point is absolutely non negotiable and here’s why.
Try again
If this link doesn’t work go to UTube and watch it, very interesting.
Outstanding explanation of why Israel can’t return to its 67 borders
I keep trying to drive this point home. They jews are much more than a small strip of land in the Middle East. They control the Central Banks and power centers around the world. They are going no where. I predict an expansion of Israel’s borders
I lifted this most excellent post from Zero Hedge as an example
Obama’s Former Chief Economist Has Some Words Of Encouragement For US Workers
Duffy says:
Krueger was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
He’s Jewish, was preceded by a Jew, and succeeded by a Jew….
meaning the Chair of the CEA, like the Fed… had 3 jews heading it in a row… and like the IRS if Steve T Miller was in fact Jewish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_T._Miller
He definitely was preceded and succeeded.
Then there’s Lack Jew in treasury – both of whose deputies are Jewish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lew
He used to chair the OMB where he was preceded and succeeded by a Jew but theres an asterisk there because it was the same guy – Jeff Zients
Jeff Zients, you ask? Yes – Jewish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Zients
here’s the thing – as director of the National Economic Council he followed a Jew…who followed a Jew…so that also had 3 jewish heads in a row.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Economic_Council
and as head of the Office of Management and Budget he followed a Jew by the name of…. wait for it…. Jack Lew… the OMB had 4 jewish heads in a row
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Management_and_Budget
2.5% of the population, folks.
I keep waiting for a MSM or even alternative news story on not only the Goldman Sachs and K street revolving door, but the sheer, massive, obvious , easily verifiable wild over-representation of Jews as heads and senior staff at the Fed, IRS, Treasury, Commerce, Trade Rep, FDIC, CBO, and ion and on and on….
add to this the total Zio domination of State and AIPAC doesnt even have to work that hard, eh?
This Time, Gaza Fighting Is ‘Proxy War’ For Entire Mideast
Source: CNN
By Josh Levs, CNN
updated 1:48 PM EDT, Fri August 1, 2014
Excerpt:
(CNN) — The conflict raging in Gaza is different this time.
While Hamas’ rocket attacks and Israel’s military actions may look familiar, they’re taking place against a whole new backdrop.
“This is unprecedented in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict,” says CNN’s Ali Younes, an analyst who has covered the region for decades. “Most Arab states are actively supporting Israel against the Palestinians — and not even shy about it or doing it discreetly.”
It’s a “joint Arab-Israeli war consisting of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia against other Arabs — the Palestinians as represented by Hamas.”
As the New York Times put it, “Arab leaders, viewing Hamas as worse than Israel, stay silent.”
One of the outcomes of the fighting will likely be “the end of the old Arab alliance system that has, even nominally, supported the Palestinians and their goal of establishing a Palestinian state,” Younes says.
“The Israel-Hamas conflict has laid bare the new divides of the Middle East,” says Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. “It’s no longer the Muslims against the Jews. Now it’s the extremists — the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, and their backers Iran, Qatar and Turkey — against Israel and the more moderate Muslims including Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.”
“It’s a proxy war for control or dominance in the Middle East,” says CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
To understand why and what all this means, we need to begin with understanding of Hamas.
Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood
Kill them all!!
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The member of Knesset who called for genocide — against the mothers of the ‘snakes’
William McGowan on August 2, 2014 13
As any street smart New Yorker knows, “you can say anything about me, but when you start talking trash about my momma, you got a problem.” Especially so in the context of genocide and race war.
Legal scholar and pundit Jonathan Turley has a great post on inflammatory comments by Ayelet Shaked, a member of the Israeli Parliament from the ultra-nationalist and ultra-religious Jewish Home Party whose leader, Naftali Bennett has been touted as a future Israeli Prime Minister. Turley cites a recent Facebook posting by Shaked, which has been interpreted as a call for genocide. Turkish PM Recep Erdogan asked:”What is the difference between this mentality and Hitler’s?”
Shaked made her post the day before the Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir was kidnapped and burned alive by six extremist Israeli Jewish youths. Her remarks are said to have contributed to the climate of revenge in Israel which led to this immolation murder and fed popular support, at least among Israeli Jews, for operations against Hamas in Gaza. These operations have been characterized as “collective punishment” against Palestinians living in Gaza and have triggered calls for a “war crimes” inquiry from top UN human rights official Navi Pilly.
Wrote Shaked on Facebook (italics, mine):
The Palestinian people has declared war on us, and we must respond with war. Not an operation, not a slow-moving one, not low-intensity, not controlled escalation, no destruction of terror infrastructure, no targeted killings. Enough with the oblique references. This is a war. Words have meanings. This is a war. It is not a war against terror, and not a war against extremists, and not even a war against the Palestinian Authority. These too are forms of avoiding reality. This is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people. Why? Ask them, they started.
I don’t know why it’s so hard for us to define reality with the simple words that language puts at our disposal. Why do we have to make up a new name for the war every other week, just to avoid calling it by its name. What’s so horrifying about understanding that the entire Palestinian people is the enemy? Every war is between two peoples, and in every war the people who started the war, that whole people, is the enemy. A declaration of war is not a war crime. Responding with war certainly is not. Nor is the use of the word “war”, nor a clear definition who the enemy is. Au contraire: the morality of war (yes, there is such a thing) is founded on the assumption that there are wars in this world, and that war is not the normal state of things, and that in wars the enemy is usually an entire people, including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.
Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.”
Responding in the Independent (UK,) Israeli writer Mira Bar Hillel said Shaked’s remarks had brought her to the brink of burning her Israeli passport. Bar Hillel:
I can no longer stand by, while Israeli politicians like Ayelet Shaked condone the deaths of innocent Palestinian women and children.
She is young. She is pretty. She is a university graduate and a computer engineer. She is also an Israeli Parliamentarian – and the reason why I am on the brink of burning my Israeli passport. Because behind that wide-eyed innocent face lurks the Angel of Death.
Shaked’s “snake” metaphor is interesting. She must not have gotten the memo circulated by Pro Israel Language Police in the US banning words like “snakes.” And let’s not even mention the Nazi “vermin” metaphor. I also found it interesting that she would reference the “morality of war” while spewing the kind of venom that shows she has no idea what that morality involves. In fact, the kind of venom which is that morality’s utter nullification.
Above is a shot of Ayelet Shaked with her Jewish Home Party leader Naftali Bennett, who is close to Dan Senor, Mitt Romney’s foreign policy adviser and frequent talking head on American television. Those like Senor arguing “shared values” as the underpinning of the US-Israeli “special relationship” might take note. If I recall correctly, Rwandan political figures who made calls analogous to Shaked’s in the run up to, and during, the genocide there in the 1990′s, are barred from entering the US.
Postscript: Noted Zionist enthusiast Seth Lipsky, a former editor of the Forward and the New York Sun who paints portraits of Zionist historical figures like David Ben Gurion and Ze’ev Jabotinsky and has them hanging in the living room of his Brooklyn Heights townhouse, has a column in the New York Post today that might be read as a companion piece to Shaked’s provocative little genocidal screed. The headline of the digital version is “Hamas and Horoshima: The Grim Morality of Fighting Evil.” Lipsky, said by the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to have “the most interesting mind in journalism,” likens Israel’s Gaza dilemma of 2014 to the situation the US found itself with Japan in 1945, implying the righteousness of a total onslaught against Hamas, hang the civilian casualties and talk of war crimes. I’ve read many deranged things since taking up the subject of the US-Israeli “special relationship” in the wake of the smearing of Chuck Hagel in early 2013. This is certainly going to be on my personal Top Ten List.
This post first appeared on William McGowan’s site, Coloring the News.