>>"We didn't mean to" is a mantra that is frequently
recited in Israel when there is a discussion of the number
of civilians - among them many children - who are killed by the
Israel Defense Forces.
Here's an easy way to assess that phony moral equivalence.
When people die from them?
To paraphrase: More than anyone, Arabs should understand Israel's claims that this was "unintended," identify with the primacy they attach to the "unintendedness" relative to the fatal results, and identify with the disjunction they create between the rationale that is inherent in the war machine Israel has built and the nation's subjective will.
Eric
[with mandolins in the background]
"Raz vitaly ya bloony eegroshy paplilly nomanny nadrekoy Vehk hadila nobereg Katyusha navasoki bereg na krewtoy ..."
and so on....
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