- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
What bothers me is that,
1) I don't believe that "collateral damage" is ever completely justified. Even if cowards are hiding behind the bodies of innocents, there is still a choice. You can withdraw your civilian population out of the range of homemade missiles and continue to use non-lethal methods of coercion. And as one person has pointed out you could use more of the carrot than the stick.
2) How do I know that what is asserted about "human shields" is the truth? Israel has not allowed the foreign press access to Gaza. We have no way of knowing if indeed Hamas' headquarters is actually under a hospital. We have only Israel's assertion to that effect. And should I be afraid of being accused of anit-semitism because I question that?
I think Israel has fallen into a trap. It has put itself morally into the wrong in the eyes of the world. It may be defiant now but it will pay the price later. Hamas has won, unless Israel changes its tactics.
