Starved to bones
Yes, the G-word is a loaded term. But what are we to make of apparent Israeli efforts to bomb Gaza to rubble and starve out its populace in an attempt, to put it as crassly as Donald Trump, to ethnically cleanse the territory to make way for beachfront resort development?
But Ocober 7? But Hamas? But hostages?
But proportionality? How much carnage is justified here, how many deaths of innocents? How many war crimes? How many “But Hamas” excuses?
The Bush II administration used September 11 to justify prisoner abuse and torture. The Netanyahu administration is using October 7 to justify even more.
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Gazans are dying of hunger. Here’s what happens to a starving human body.
I once heard a teacher describe a lesson to his class in American history. He described colonists coming to these shores from Europe to escape religious persecution. That is, for religious freedom. And as soon as they set up settlements, the first rule some made was that anyone living with them had to worship like them.
Why, he asked students, does it often seem acceptable to do to others what had been done to you?
I’d include photos of children starved to bones, but I won’t give some who’d justify that the satisfaction.
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