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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Institutionalised Disregard for Palestinian Life


Institutionalised Disregard for Palestinian Life

Mouin Rabbani 9 July 2014
One 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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