And does the docile compliance of Fatah in the West Bank stop the violence against the plestinians, stop the land grabs, stop the IDF shooting children dead ? No. We have the perverse situation where the colonisers make the law that resistance is illegal whilst also making all acts of oppression just. And the world nods its head and agrees.

Lie after lie after lie. There is nothing the palestinians can do to appease the israelis. Their very existence is provocation enough. Let none believe there is a behaviour from the palestinians that would allow justice to breath, it is not in their gift.

When the israelis say "hamas and their like" you can hear the same murderous contempt that fuelled the word "untermenschen". When israelis talk of war to the "bitter end", I hope they are not convinced there is a final solution to the palestinian problem.

Israel is certainly damaging itself, but this is self-harm by proxy.

But finally I am less disgusted by Israel's behaviour than I am by the gleeful collusion of our own political elites. How can they see this and call it anything other than an atrocity ?

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