A Massacre Of Innocents

No matter which way you look at it - whether it's through Pat Buchanan's lens of reason and justified retaliation, or David Aaronovitch's pathetic philosophising, or Martin Peretz's much more direct (and frightening) 'Do not fuck with the Jews' - there can be absolutely no doubt that if it happened (and one has no reason to believe that it did not), the deliberate targeting by the Israelis of a Gazan prison - a building from which by its very nature people cannot escape - was a war crime; no matter what assorted British Kool-Aid drinkers might think about it.

Palestinian civilian casualties thus far have run into the hundreds; apparently, casualties that the Israelis have suffered from Hamas rocket attacks amount to just one. I challenge anyone to justify such violence as moral.