[Peace-discuss] How many kids did you kill today?

[David Green]

This picture, or one similar was also on the front
page of the Chicago Tribune, and yesterday the
News-Gazette. This provoked me to write a letter, but
my 30 days are not up yet. But I hope that somebody
will. The message sent is that the suffering of Jews
is seen to be of more value than the murder of a
Palestinian girl, which indeed was documented. I will
pass along more details about that in a separate post.

DG

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> [The New York Times had a dramatic, almost
> Delacroix-like
> picture on its front page today -- mounted Israeli
> police in a
> confrontation with West Bank settlers.  But it's one
> of those
> pictures that requires at least a thousand words to
> explain. 
> Here's an attempt by the excellent blog left i on
> the news. --CGE]
> 
> 
> In the occupied West Bank (known in the American
> media simply
> as the "West Bank") yesterday, Israeli security
> forces
> demolished nine houses in an illegal (yes, that's
> redundant)
> Israeli settlement. During the course of the melee
> which
> accompanied the demolition, 86 of the officers were
> injured.
> One was knocked unconscious by a hurled concrete
> block, which
> is, needless to say, a far more lethal weapon than a
> stone.
> Another officer was stabbed in the stomach. And what
> was the
> response of the Israeli security forces to this
> ferocious
> assault on them? 140 of the protesters were injured.
> None was
> killed.
> 
> And to what can we contrast this result? A nine-year
> old
> Palestinian girl, Aya al-Astal, wandered "too close"
> to the
> fence separating Gaza from Israel last week; she was
> shot and
> killed by the ID[sic]F. Also last week, 13-year-old
> Munadel
> Abu Aaalia was shot in the back by the ID[sic]F and
> killed as
> he walked along a road reserved for Jewish settlers
> with two
> friends. He wasn't even throwing stones, but the
> IDF,
> mind-readers that they are, determined that the boys
> planned
> to throw rocks at Israeli cars, and sentenced
> Munadel to death
> without a trial for that supposed future crime.
> 
> Neither Munadel nor Aya's name, nor, as far as I can
> tell, the
> incidents themselves, have even warranted mention by
> American
> media, or indeed any Western media outside of the
> Guardian
> article cited.
> 
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