Shouting not talking
Simon Tisdall
June 27, 2006 11:43 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/simon_tisdall/2006/06/shouting_not_talking.html
As Israel's government edges towards the ultimate injustice - a
unilateral delineation of its national borders and a concomitant,
permanent expropriation of Palestinian land - its statements grow ever
more shrill. It is as if it believes that by noisy remonstrance,
exaggerated rhetoric and threats of ever greater violence, it can
somehow conceal or disguise the intrinsic injustice of its adopted
policy and the immorality of its daily actions.
Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, turned up the volume again on
Monday evening, sending barbed words crashing like unguided artillery
shells into the grim, broken barrios of Gaza. The capture of the
Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit, and the Palestinian attack that
preceded it were part and parcel of a "murderous, hateful, fanatical
Islamic extremist desire to destroy that state of Israel," he said. In
truth, the attack appears to have been belated, wrongheaded retaliation
for the killing of nearly two dozen Palestinain civilians, including
seven children, by Israel's army in the past four weeks.
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