Institutionalised Disregard for Palestinian Life
Mouin
Rabbani 9 July 2014
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either rejects the killing of non-combatants on principle or takes a more tribal
approach to such matters. In the case of Israel and the Palestinians, the global
outpouring of grief and condemnation over the killing of three Israeli youths in
the occupied West Bank is the moral equivalent of Rolf Harris denouncing Jimmy
Savile.
Over the
past 14 years, Israel has killed Palestinian children at a rate of more than two
a week. There seems to be no Israeli child in harm’s way that Barack Obama will
not compare to his own daughters, but their Palestinian counterparts are brushed
aside with mantras about Israel’s right to self-defence. The institutionalised
disregard for Palestinian life in the West helps explain not only why
Palestinians resort to violence, but also Israel’s latest assault on the Gaza
Strip.http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/07/09/mouin-rabbani/institutionalised-disregard-for-palestinian-life/
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