“To je otroška igra.”

V času, ko človeška surovost in ideološka nadutost narekujeta nekaterim čustveno zakrnelim posameznikom, da ob vsakem ubitem otroku v Gazi na dan privlečejo abotna opravičila, prepisana s spletnih strani okupatorske vojske, je dobro pogledati, kaj o tem menijo v Izraelu. Kaj o tem menijo ljudje, Judje, ki o izraelski okupaciji in krvavih operacijah izraelske vojske pišejo že več let in so imeli kot (vojni) dopisniki priložnost stvari opazovati na terenu.

V kolikor nekateri zaradi nevednosti ponavljajo laži kamarile v Jeruzalemu, je to pač spomenik učinkovitosti izraelske propagande. Ta spomenik smo na tem blogu temeljito razrušili že večkrat. Vendar je narava človeka takšna, da se le stežka odreče predsodkom in implicitnemu rasizmu, ki mu je bil privzgojen v mladosti, medtem ko je bil njegov intelektualni razvoj zavrt s sicer visoko kalorično, a manjvredno medijsko dieto.

Zato želim, da si naslednje vrstice komentarja v izraelskem časniku Haaretz vzamemo k srcu in k njim pristopimo kot k pričevanju novinarja, ki ga je pokol prizadel kot Juda in človeka; zato, ker se zaveda, da ni prvi in še zdaleč ni zadnji. Napad na Gazo je otroška igra, pravi:

The fighting in Gaza is “war deluxe.” Compared with previous wars, it is child’s play – pilots bombing unimpeded as if on practice runs, tank and artillery soldiers shelling houses and civilians from their armored vehicles, combat engineering troops destroying entire streets in their ominous protected vehicles without facing serious opposition. A large, broad army is fighting against a helpless population and a weak, ragged organization that has fled the conflict zones and is barely putting up a fight. All this must be said openly, before we begin exulting in our heroism and victory.

This war is also child’s play because of its victims. About a third of those killed in Gaza have been children – 311, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 270 according to the B’Tselem human rights group – out of the 1,000 total killed as of Wednesday. Around 1,550 of the 4,500 wounded have also been children according to figures from the UN, which says the number of children killed has tripled since the ground operation began. Vir.

In potem besede, ki si jih ponovite vedno, ko boste trdosrčno parlamentirali o Hamasovi taktiki:

One can say Hamas hides among the civilian population, as if the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv is not located in the heart of a civilian population, as if there are places in Gaza that are not in the heart of a civilian population. One can also claim that Hamas uses children as human shields, as if in the past our own organizations fighting to establish a country did not recruit children.

A significant majority of the children killed in Gaza did not die because they were used as human shields or because they worked for Hamas. They were killed because the IDF bombed, shelled or fired at them, their families or their apartment buildings. That is why the blood of Gaza’s children is on our hands, not on Hamas’ hands, and we will never be able to escape that responsibility.