Saturday, February 2, 2008

Seeing War Though Palestinian Eyes

When you learn to see the world through Palestinian eyes, you’ll know that Israel’s Gaza actions were stunningly effective and that “the world” couldn’t care less.
To see the world through Jewish eyes would be to see 4,000 rockets fall through Sderot ceilings and onto avenues, killing or wounding those too slow or unlucky to get out of the way, such as a 13-year-old boy with cerebral palsy or an older woman crossing a street. There were no editorials in The New York Times damning the Palestinians for the collective punishment of Sderot innocents. There were no pious statements against rockets from the United Methodist Church that was finally indignant this week about Israel... read more news from Jerusalem

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