Orwell, Blinding Tribalism, Selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza
by Glenn Greenwald
by
Glenn Greenwald
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 Former
McCain-Palin campaign spokesman and current
Weekly Standard editor Michael Goldfarb notes that Israel,
a couple of days ago, dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a Gazan home
which killed a top Hamas leader . . . in addition to 18 others,
including his four wives and nine of his children. About the killing
of those innocent civilians, Goldfarb writes (h/t John Cole via
email):
The fight
against Islamic radicals always seems to come around to whether
or not they can, in fact, be deterred, because it's not clear
that they are rational, at least not like us. But to wipe out
a man's entire family, it's hard to imagine that doesn't give
his colleagues at least a moment's pause. Perhaps it will make
the leadership of Hamas rethink the wisdom of sparking an open
confrontation with Israel under the current conditions.
That, of course,
is just a slightly less profane version of Marty
Peretz's chest-beating proclamation that the great value of
the attack on Gaza is to teach those Arabs a lesson: "do not
f**k with the Jews."
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