Jan
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In yesterday’s post I brought some alarming statistics about the effect of the war on the Palestinian’s day-to-day life. Gideon Levy comments on the price Israelis are paying for ignoring Palestinian suffering.
“Concealing information has another ramification: if we don’t know, there is no one to ask why. The eight Palestinians were killed in Rafah during the destruction of the tunnels without the question being asked as to whether this mission was justified at any means, at any price.”
“This is a deliberate aim. It permits presenting the Palestinians as the only guilty party, and it falls on fertile ground. The majority of the public doesn’t want to know what the IDF is really doing in the occupied territories…”