© The Postil Magazine
When will the thousands killed get justice? Or are we all supposed to just go on with our lives and pretend that it's all the pursuit of "the right of self-defense?" Who are these IDF snipers who anonymously
shoot children, and no one is even curious to know who these killers are? Is this the way of war now, according to the "international rules based order" that we should be so proud of in the West, which is supposedly the hallmark of our "civilization?"
A day of reckoning will come. There are good men and women who are working to make
that a reality.
And what are we to make of our politcal class that utters not a peep about the slaughter that Netanyahu is doing, but who earlier could not get the ICC to issue an arrest warrant for President Putin fast enough, because Putin was assumed to have "kidnapped" Ukrainian orphans that they might have a decent life in Russia. But Netanyahu can kill as many children as he wants, since that is not a crime according to the "rule of law," so the "jurists" at the ICC stay busy identifying "Russian crimes" that might be spotted at the backs of their cereal boxes.
Kurt Tucholsky was paraphrasing
a French joke when he observed that "the death of one person: that's a catastrophe. One hundred thousand dead: that's a statistic!"
What Israel has done for over a month in Gaza is now a matter of statistics, for they have killed over 15,000 so far,
more than 4000 of them children. It is the Palestinian Holocaust, because there are many more thousands buried under all those pancaked buildings where people once lived. And now that the Israeli
assault continues, many thousands more will die.
Given these grim statistics, it becomes more and more important to remember the one person, rather than mention in passing the vast number of the now faceless thousands dead.
Comment: Whether or not Bibi and the IDF brass knew exactly when the attack was coming, it certainly suited them to let it proceed. How else would they get such a big get-out-of-jail card to for the obliteration of Gaza?