{"id":1371,"date":"2003-03-17T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2003-03-17T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-18T01:23:00","slug":"killing-by-bulldozer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/03\/17\/21\/23\/killing-by-bulldozer\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing-By-Bulldozer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone claimed I never intentionally broadcast when Israeli people are murdered, but that I seem to take special care to broadcast the murder of Palestinian people. The murder of any<\/i> person is a cause for regret – this is never in doubt. But as to the form of the expression of regret, maybe it’s all a question of quantity. The death of an Israeli seems to generate far more raw media output than the death of a Palestinian. Some of this is due to ideological censorship, and some due to the structural reality that most “Middle East” journalists report from within Israel and not from within the Occupied Territories. However, the crushing-to-death-by-bulldozer<\/a> of an unfortunate American student has provoked a predictable upsurge in reports of Palestinian deaths<\/a>. I note that, according to several eye-witness reports, the bulldozer intentionally reversed over the injured woman<\/a> to complete its task. A cynic might say that in exercising such diligence beyond the call of duty the driver was probably not unionized. Alas these ISM “human shields” began their campaign with great optimism<\/a>. The woman who was killed wrote as much recently<\/a>. But was not to last<\/a>. Of course, many Israelis see these non-violent activists as enemies to be eliminated<\/a>, while others note that they have hithertofore possessed a certain degree of immunity<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

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This past month, Israel nearly set a record for killing Palestinians, mostly civilians, in a single month. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli assaults killed 82 Palestinians, of them 50 in the Gaza Strip and 32 in the West Bank, wounding an additional 616 persons. Israeli soldiers also killed several Palestinian children and 3 medical staff as they sought to attend to wounded. Now, they have killed an American peace activist. In this same period, only six Israelis were killed, all of them soldiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This story’s gruesome tally is already insufficient, they need to add at least ten more:
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Ten Palestinians, including a four-year-old girl, were killed during Israeli swoops in the Gaza Strip on Monday that touched off fierce battles with gunmen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This cycle of meaningless violence will continue as long as absolutist Palestinian and Israeli ideologues engage in a careful calculus of terror using people as raw material and territory to keep score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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