{"id":637,"date":"2008-12-29T22:14:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2008-12-29T22:45:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:45:48","slug":"end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/29\/end-of-the-year-carnage-absurdity-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"End-of-the-Year Carnage & Absurdity in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both Hamas and the Israeli government\u00a0 bear some of the blame, but the Israeli slaughter of civilians far exceeds that inflicted by the ragtag rockets fired from Gaza.<\/p>\n

The craven response by the American political class to the use of American planes and weapons to slaughter civilians is what any reasonable cynic should have expected.\u00a0 Obama is maintaining his silence – perhaps because there is little hay to be made from victims outside of Darfur.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This conflict may be even more ludicrous than the typical Mideast carnage.\u00a0 The New York Times<\/em>, in a front page story headlined, “Israel Reminds\u00a0Foe\u00a0It Has Teeth<\/a>,”\u00a0noted, “Israel\u2019s military operation in Gaza aims to expunge the ghost of its flawed 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon and re-establish Israeli deterrence.”<\/p>\n

“Teeth”?<\/p>\n

Blasting the hell out of an overcrowded prison-like slab of land that has no anti-aircraft defenses? This is the New Macho??<\/p>\n

Whom does Israel think that this will deter?\u00a0 Other groups of hungry and discontent convicts throughout Eurasia?<\/p>\n

For Israel to “flaunt its strength” by using airstrikes against Gaza\u00a0 would be like the Bush administration seeking to regain its military swagger after Iraq\u00a0by having the U.S. Air Force blast the hell out of a few Indian reservations in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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