Just to say that David Grossman, writing in Haaretz, demonstrates that
some Israelis recognize what they have done:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/dialogue-with-hamas-is-only-path-to-peace-urges-novelist-1452297.html
Doug
On 20-Jan-09, at 1:48 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Amongst all this 'counter-pinpoint' destruction - as in 'demolish as
> much as they can' - one account I read of a graveyard, its markers,
> mowed down by tanks is 'metaphorically' the most diseased. The
> implication is that 'we' can also re-kill the dead; we can tread
> over and eliminate the 'heathen' ancestry. If there are any ghosts
> risen from that graveyard may they journey across the Israel border
> to perpetually haunt the graveyards and the citizens of that country
> until there is the arrival of a genuine peace.
Douglas Barbour
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