By George S. Hishmeh
Even if a ceasefire is reached, (click here) the cycle of violence will continue so long as the Tel Aviv regime keeps appeasing hardliners and new colonies continue sprouting.
Washington: The “horrendous bloodshed,” as The Economist of London described the month-long Israeli bombardment of Palestinians in their besieged, overpopulated Gaza Strip, has highlighted the sharply different assessments between the British and American media.
A case in point is last Tuesday’s column by Richard Cohen of the Washington Post who wrote “it helps account for why the [Israeli] bombings of schools, hospitals and home in Gaza are almost instantaneously denounced as war crimes — a purposeful atrocity and not, as sometimes happens in war, a mistake. Israel, as some feel, is too good to be so bad.”
He added, “Not only is this hardly true... but it also veers into a kind of anti-Semitism. If the bombing of a school or hospital is not a mistake, then it must have been on purpose: Israel is the cold-hearted killer of children.”
What peeved him was what he descried as the “gravamen” of a column in The Independent, a British newspaper, authored by Mark Steel who called Israel “the child-murdering community,” — a view that Cohen insisted was anti-Semitic. He argued, “It assumed a maniacal willingness to kill children, either on purpose or because they are in the way — collateral damage, as it is sometimes called. It gives mocking recognition to all the precautions Israel takes to avoid such casualties.”...
The bottom line is Israel doesn't really get along with the neighborhood.
The bottom line is Israel doesn't really get along with the neighborhood.
