Simply put, Israel has given much more suffering than it’s received.
Robert Fisk writes it in TruthDig (originally published in The Independent) like so:
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It all depends where you live. That was the geography of Israel’s propaganda, designed to demonstrate that we softies …don’t realise the horror of 12 (now 20) Israeli deaths in 10 years and thousands of rockets […]
[M]y favourite journalistic justification for this bloodbath [is] “The death toll from Gaza is, of course, shocking, dreadful, unspeakable … Though it does not compare with the death toll amongst Israelis if Hamas had its way.”
Get it? The massacre in Gaza is justified because Hamas would have done the same if they could, even though they didn’t […]
I’m waiting for the same writers to ask how we’d feel if we … came under sustained attack from supersonic aircraft and Merkava tanks and thousands of troops whose shells and bombs tore 40 women and children to pieces outside a school, shredded whole families in their beds and who, after nearly a week, had killed almost 200 civilians out of 600 fatalities. [since the original article, the numbers have risen to almost 500 civilian deaths out of 1000 Palestinian fatalities – M.] […]
I pointed out that journalists should be on the side of those who suffer […]
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The death toll today since this conflict began? Israelis, 13. Gazans, 1,000.
“Murder is murder,” some will say. Yet the two are not the same.
The slaughter of hundreds of defenseless, malnourished people is a crime of a different order.
Tags: Palestinians,, Hamas,, Gaza,, war,, middle-east,, genocide,, civilian+casualities,, Palestinians, Monte Asbury
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