Bomb in Tel Aviv
The big news today is the suicide bomb in Tel Aviv by a guy who looks about 10 but was apparently 21. His parents had no idea of what he was going to do, or should I say his "murderous intent" as the news reports would have it. Rightly condemned and talked about this was a brutal crime. But ( and there is always a but, no matter what people say), I have a couple of queries from arising from the news reports. First, I read in the Independent that the Israeli army (note: not one stupid, manipulated young kid but the state apparatus, which is full of young manipulated young kids) is shelling Gaza (where ordinary Palestinians 'live') to the tune of about 300 shells a day. Why isn't this headline news? Second, the politicians in Israel (and in the US) have taken this opportunity to conveniently blame Hamas for the bomb - this even though Isalmic Jihad has already accepted responsibility for the bomb whereas Hamas has largely kept to its ceasefire announced a few months ago.
Makes you think, doesn't it, whether people are genuinely trying to stop people getting killed, whether in Gaza or Tel Aviv, or whether there is another agenda.
Makes you think, doesn't it, whether people are genuinely trying to stop people getting killed, whether in Gaza or Tel Aviv, or whether there is another agenda.
posted by Akash at 7:25 PM
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Lying in bed, having the same thought. The Economist has a good couple of articles this week explaining how Israel has now begun building a wall to include those parts of jerusalem that it wants, which sounds like most of it to me, or a rather large land grab. Create 'facts on the ground' and then use the facts on the ground to justify doing more of the same. You can't say its not clever.
Nowhere on the mainstream news, not even on the BBC, which according to most of friends is deeply anti-semitic. Hmnn...
By the way, the Economist concludes that their actions are unwise.
But is there any point in us pnitifcating on it when we do absolutely nothing?
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