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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.

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  • Wednesday, January 7, 2009 02:24 PM

    @rwruger, you write that the innocent children killed in this 12th day of the all-out attack on Gaza

    may be the "future rocketeers". Wasn't Shakespeare an amazing man when he could anticipate somebody like you in his play "Macbeth"! Having arranged to have Banquo and his young son, Fleance killed, the usurper to the throne, Macbeth, is enraged when the assassins tell him that the boy has escaped. He may some day return and demand vengeance for his father's death. It's very likely that the children of Gaza who have endured such awful suffering from the Israeli attack for 12 days and nights will grow up with an implacable hatred of Israel and, indeed, America. Rocketeers? Yes and probably more skilled in the technology of warfare than Hamas is today.

    By then, the story of the Jewish Holocaust will be just another tale of genocide, overtaken by Rwanda and other places where inhumanity prevails.

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