Self-Loathing & Self-Hate: Amira Hass

Here she is, at her usual worse:

The sanctity of the soaring Qassam

Perhaps Hamas thinks the Palestinians in Gaza were ready for another high-tech Israeli onslaught, for another IDF video game in which children playing on a roof are identified as lookouts and sentenced to death.

By Amira Hass (rhymes with, oh, never mind)

The Hamas authorities once again forgot that the neighbor/occupier to its east is crazy. Fact: Over Shabbat, Hamas' military wing fired more than 50 mortar shells at Israel. Or perhaps it didn't forget: Perhaps it merely thought the Palestinian people in Gaza were ready for another high-tech Israeli onslaught, for another Israel Defense Forces video game in which children playing on a roof are identified as lookouts and sentenced to death.

In this testosterone-rich competition, there will always be more checkmarks on the Israeli side. But Israel is clever enough to act like the threatened party and to hide its deadly performances. Who cares that the "appropriate Zionist response" to 50 mortar shells, which sowed fear but did not kill, was the killing of two 16-year-olds? Imad Faraj Allah and Qassam Abu Uteiwi, from the Nuseirat refugee camp, were the people killed by Israel's retaliatory bombing later that evening - not "two terrorists," as our media obediently said, parroting the commanders' dictation.

She always manages to make Israel seem worse.

Such a talent.

And I just saw Joseph Dana on Twitter:

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