| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Médecins Sans Frontières. | |
| Posted by: | Richard Carter | |
| Date/Time: | 14/07/25 13:38:00 |
| What a feeble response that is! But actually, it's worse than feeble because of its reference to "a category of contributors to the Forum who, on the topic of Israel and the Palestinians, only posts material critical of the Israelis while never mentioning Hamas and the hostages." Now Gerry Boyce can speak for himself, but I really would like to know who this category is supposed to contain. As far as I know, everyone here who has been critical of the Israeli response to the murderous October 7th has done so many times, so the claim that this supposedly "one-sided approach is a professed wish for peace but it is always peace on Hamas’ terms" almost reaches Hawkesian levels of smears. However, I'd like to refer to a different aspect of the IDF's behaviour, in its slaughter of the 10 Palestinians, including 5 children, waiting for emergency food, and specifically to the IDF response to their aktion. The attack, it said, was a "technical error" aimed at a claimed Islamic Jihad terrorist but which fell "dozens of metres" from the target. But the worst part of heh response was the statement that "the IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals:" that's a classic non-apology apology, the kind of garbage anu corporate body spews out when a mistake is made - and "regrets" hardly fills the bill here: "regrets" is the kind of thing that follows something relatively trivial like a missed appointment not the killing of 10 innocent civilians. And, the inevitable conclusion of the statement: "The incident is under review." How many times have we seen this statement, only for nothing to come out of the review. This all more closely resembles the view of an organisation that sees the Palestinians as less than human, as does the latest plan of Israel Katz, the actual Minister of Defense in the Israeli government, to set up a camp to house the population of Gaza. Lebensraum in Gaza and the West Bank and now this concentration camp plan, what does this begin to look like to anyone other than an apologist for the Israeli governemnt? |