[lit-ideas] Re: Do You Have a Moral Urgency?
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:34:23 -0700 (PDT)
Maybe this could be relevent to this thread. O.K.
During the past month, Hezbollah's Katyushas killed 18
Israeli Arabs among the 41 Israeli civilians who died
in the war. Clearly, Hassan Nasrallah didn't mean to
kill them. But as someone who knows that many Arabs
live in northern Israel, and as someone who knows that
the launchers for his inaccurate Katyushas cannot
choose the target they will hit - the fact that it was
unintended is meaningless.
More than anyone, Israelis should understand
Nasrallah's claims that this was "unintended,"
identify with the primacy he attaches to the
"unintendedness" relative to the fatal results, and
identify with the disjunction he creates between the
rationale that is inherent in the war machine he has
built and his subjective will. "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.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/750978.html
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