Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Fisk: When did we stop caring about civilian deaths during wartime?

I wonder if we are "normalising" war. It's not just that Israel has yet again got away with the killing of hundreds of children in Gaza. 

And after its own foreign minister said that Israel's army had been allowed to "go wild" there, it seems to bear out my own contention that the Israeli "Defence Force" is as much a rabble as all the other armies in the region. But we seem to have lost the sense of immorality that should accompany conflict and violence. The BBC's refusal to handle an advertisement for Palestinian aid was highly instructive. It was the BBC's "impartiality" that might be called into question. In other words, the protection of an institution was more important than the lives of children. War was a spectator sport whose careful monitoring – rather like a football match, even though the Middle East is a bloody tragedy – assumed precedence over human suffering. More...

See also:

  1. Robert Fisk on Gaza: what is Israel afraid of?
  2. Robert Fisk: Leaders lie, civilians die, and...
  3. War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing...
  4. No! No! Nothing has changed...
  5. This is what's happening in Gaza...
  6. Sri Lanka and the Tamil genocide...

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