By Juan Cole
You always wonder where John Kerry the anti-Vietnam War activist
went, who compared the US campaigns in Southeast Asia to the predations
of the Mongols. It turns out he is still in there somewhere, just not
allowed to appear before the cameras. But in a ‘hot-mic’ moment on Fox
on Sunday, Kerry appeared to reference the Israeli massacre at al-Shuja`iya in Gaza by Israeli planes and/or artillery, which left 60 dead & 200 wounded.
Kerry called sardonically “a hell of a pinpoint operation.” His
reference is to Israeli propagandists who keep saying that Israel’s
airstrikes in densely populated Gaza are “precision strikes” when very
obviously they are massive and indiscriminate, having killed over 500 as
of Sunday night, over 70% of them noncombatants, including women and
children. Although Hamas, the combatants, are fair game, the
noncombatants are not. Israel doesn’t get off the hook by saying Hamas
uses human shields. First, most of those people Israel killed were not
being used as human shields. Second, international law forbids military
commanders to strike if it seems likely they will kill a lot of
innocents.
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