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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 AM

The Israel rules

America's support of the Gaza attack proves once again that our mythical image of Israel has blinded us to its faults -- a myopia with devastating consequences for both countries.

By Gary Kamiya

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:01 AM

The doctor is Dr. Jekyll and Satanic is Mr. Hyde

Thanks to Arthur Conan Doyle we know that characters like this exist. Being a doctor doesn't automatically mean honour and/or integrity. One of the most notorious killers in recent British history has been Dr. Harold Shipman who despatched a large number of elderly patients in Hyde, Greater Manchester, England. It's only now that I've seen the coincidence of Conan Doyle's fictional Mr. Hyde, being in a strange sort of way, connected to an actual medical doctor in Hyde, Dr. Harold Shipman. It's these connections that inform so much of our ideas as, for instance, seeing that the Gaza Ghetto is populated by indigent people who are regarded as inferior by Israelis (AND obviously by Americans) and thus can be subjected to what in the civilised world are being called "war crimes".

—maureenodonnell Read maureenodonnell's other letters

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