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it does not take a rocket scientist to link hezbollah's rocket launches to the state of affairs that the israelis have created in gaza.
while attention is focussed on the military and humanitarian crises that israeli actions are putting into motion in lebanon, the grinding oppression in gaza has been bumped out of sight out of mind.
hezbollah is obviously opportunistic in this, and i am not a fan either of the group or its choice to intervene in the situation being generated by gaza--
but if for some reason the causal chain of events has become mysterious to you, think about it using the scenario in gaza as a starting point.
israel is not a innocent victim in any of this--to think they are is to think via fantasy. while these fantasies unfold, people die on the ground.
i see no meaningful distinction between a guerilla group using a makeshift bomb to blow up a market and phosphorus and conventional bombs being rained down on civilians from aircraft marked with a military insignia. particularly not in the context of the pulverizing of lebanon. maybe some of you folk who argue in favor is israeli actions based on some vague long-term pseudo-history of the region (you know, the ones that do not at any point take seriously the assymetery of force between israeli and palestinians, the one that knows nothing and understands nothing about the history of occupation and routinized violence directed against palestinians, etc and moves from that to presenting israel as the innocent victim of "terrorist attacks") can manage to make a distinction between these types of action. i cannot.
but as has been argued above, there is no proportionality, no relationship between what israel is doing and its putative objectives and/or target.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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