state conducted terrorism
[T]he accounts of the massive destruction of civilian homes, and of the firing on civilians [in the refugee camp of Jenin], could be confirmed as they also occurred in the town of Jenin, suggesting a widespread and systematic pattern of human rights abuses that is only now beginning to emerge.
I don't know where to start, this article tells of so many crimes and inhumanities. Like rocketing and bulldozing homes while civilians still occupy them. Like using prisoners as human shields. Like extrajudicial executions and disposal of bodies in unmarked mass graves.
Are the Israeli's allowed to do this because of the Holocaust? We need to get over our gentile guilt. I have only skimmed the surface of that genocide's horror, like lightly touching the numbers etched in glass, and even that was overwhelming. But nothing justifies repeating that behavior. Nothing. I acknowledge the base urge of the Israeli people to return horrors and inhumanities for the horrors and inhumanities which have been inflicted on them. But civilization, by definition, means that such atrocities are stopped, not perpetuated. Sharon, in everything he has done his whole career, has sought to perpetuate the insanity of hatred. Israel, stop him.
Where are the tears? Where have our hearts and souls gone?
