[Salon] A Gold Medal Performance in Hypocrisy
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- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 11:24:40 -0400
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FM: John Whitbeck
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid declared yesterday (in a
tweet, so whether he managed to keep a straight face cannot be
determined): "Intentionally harming a civilian population is a
war crime and I strongly condemn it
(https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-s-lapid-condemns-kyiv-suburb-killings-as-war-crimes-1.10717534).
Some may recall that, in the campaign for the April 2019
Knesset elections, Benny Gantz, now Israel's Defense Minister,
ran video ads bragging that, as the man in charge of Israel's
2014 assault on Gaza, he had bombed Gaza "back to the Stone
Age"
(https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-election-ad-boasts-gaza-bombed-back-stone-ages).
That assault, during which, according the UN Human Rights
Council, 1462 Palestinian civilians (including 551 children)
were killed, as well as Israel's other periodic "mowing the
lawn" assaults on Gaza, all of which have killed and injured
many thousands of civilians while causing massive damage to
housing and critical infrastructure, have constituted
"intentionally harming a civilian population" on an industrial
scale.
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