With every passing day, and with every passing incident, I come to think that Israel, and the supports of Israel, are evil.
Let’s look at this Qana business that Amots calls our attention to.
Israel bombs a building in Qana and kills 30 or 40 children. This is a bit of a PR problem for Israel, so what to do?
First try lying --- which the Israelis do with the argument that they had to bomb the building because resistance fighters were near it. (Only the Israelis and their supporters of course don’t call men and women who are resist invasion “patriots” or “resistance fighters” or even “soldiers” --- that would be to grant them too much humanity. They are “terrorists,” and because they are terrorists, it is okay to kill them on any pretext.)
As it turned out, however, lying didn't work very well. No resistance fighters were near the building that anybody could discover, which made the PR problem more difficult.
What to do? What to do?
Ah, here is the solution: CHANGE THE DEBATE -- make it about taking pictures of dead children instead of about bombing children and being the reason why they are dead.
In my humble opinion, people who do this --- who excuse brutality, and worse, who use rhetorical tricks and high school debating tactics to shift attention from it --- are not just sick. They are evil. |
