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i'm not sure why this keeps happening, the assumption that if you are critical of the israeli operation you are somehow for hamas. speaking for myself, that's entirely false and i've found myself having to write the same thing over and over in the thread. it's strange, like there's the automatic dimension to how folk think about this that overrides dissonant information.
but i'll put it in again---israel and hamas are both responsible for this debacle--but the onus really is on the israelis and, because of their idiotic policy logic, the bush administration.
obama has already indicated a saner approach in that he's willing to talk to hamas. that's as far as he's gone, but even that is a *Vast* improvement over the current situation.
again, my disbelief concerning the gaza situation centers on the civilian population being pinned in place. this makes the situation go beyond the routine "a pox on all their houses" in terms of co-dependent insanity of conservative political organizations and their mirror image, almost a requirement it seems at times, in organizations like hamas. that the civilian population is trapped there, particularly under such horrific conditions, short-circuits any possible justification for this action.
and i haven't forgotten about those fine fellows in the mubarak government who are keeping one of the 7 main exit points closed while israel keeps the other 6 closed.
what's more if you are inclined to support israel, to think well of it, i don't see how you can not be appalled at this. i can't see how this serves any rational interest on the israeli side.
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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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