Bragi
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Mon Dec-29-08 10:24 AM
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The neighborhood bully strikes again |
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By Gideon Levy
Israel embarked yesterday on yet another unnecessary, ill-fated war. On July 16, 2006, four days after the start of the Second Lebanon War, I wrote: "Every neighborhood has one, a loud-mouthed bully who shouldn't be provoked into anger... Not that the bully's not right - someone did harm him. But the reaction, what a reaction!"
Two and a half years later, these words repeat themselves, to our horror, with chilling precision. Within the span of a few hours on a Saturday afternoon, the IDF sowed death and destruction on a scale that the Qassam rockets never approached in all their years, and Operation "Cast Lead" is only in its infancy.
Once again, Israel's violent responses, even if there is justification for them, exceed all proportion and cross every red line of humaneness, morality, international law and wisdom... http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050459.html
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Mon Dec-29-08 10:42 AM
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1. 179 were killed in Mumbai. Israel beat that by over 100 |
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Mon Dec-29-08 01:53 PM
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2. This puts me an image in my mind |
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of a kid taking a stick and continually poking a hornet's nest and then expressing surprise and outrage when he gets stung.
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