Letter: Fact is a casualty of wartime
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I feel the BDN’s egregious editorial headline ” Israel-Hamas battle is historic and complicated” on Nov. 8 shows a number of elementary misunderstandings of the totally trendy historical past of the Israeli/Palestinian battle.
Hamas is a corporation based in 1987 and, as its Arabic title implies, was born of resistance, in response to Israeli aggression and occupation. It didn’t exist till 30 years after the founding of the state of Israel.
The trendy state of Israel is youthful than my father. By the Byzantine Period, the Jewish inhabitants had largely been pushed out of what was then generally known as Palestina and they might not return, in any recordable numbers, till the pogroms pressured large-scale emigration from the Russian Empire, starting in 1881.
As for the concept that Israel goes out of its method to keep away from civilian casualties in Gaza, listed here are a couple of telling remarks from Israel’s prime brass which might point out in any other case:
Protection Minister Yoav Gallant ordered a “full siege” of the Gaza Strip. “We’re combating human animals and we act accordingly,” he mentioned.
Israel Protection Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari mentioned that the “emphasis is on harm, not accuracy.”
Gaza will grow to be a “metropolis of tents,” one safety official mentioned.
Fact is at all times a casualty throughout wartime nevertheless it’s on the market, for anybody keen to peek behind the carefully-curated scrim of hagiography which, on this nation, masquerades as historical past for Israel.
Durin Chappe
Sullivan
