2009/01/01

Israel's Friends must say 'STOP'

Nick Palmer has been a member of Labour Friends of Israel for a long time. His mother had worked for UNRRA, the wartime organization which helped find homes for the victims of Nazism.
Nevertheless, he warns: "If Israel launched air strikes against groups preparing to fire missiles, this would be entirely covered by the international law on self-defense. The problem is that Israel's response consistently reaches beyond Hamas's leadership group and affects the entire civilian population. It is a wholly disproportionate response.
The picture shows the beautiful Rachel Corrie, after she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer, whose operator had plenty of time to consider his very own, very carefully considered disproportionate response.
What does that say about Israeli morality?

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