And there lie the bodies
By Gideon Levy
Ha'aretz
The legend, lest it be a true story, tells of how the late mathematician, Professor Haim Hanani, asked his students at the Technion to draw up a plan for constructing a pipe to transport blood from Haifa to Eilat. The obedient students did as they were told. Using logarithmic rulers, they sketched the design for a sophisticated pipeline. They meticulously planned its route, taking into account the landscape's topography, the possibility of corrosion, the pipe's diameter and the flow calibration. When they presented their final product, the professor rendered his judgment: You failed. None of you asked why we need such a pipe, whose blood will fill it, and why it is flowing in the first place.
Regardless of whether this story is legend or true, Israel is now failing its own blood pipeline test. As Israel has been preoccupied with Gaza throughout the entire week, nobody has asked whose blood is being spilled and why. Everything is permitted, legitimate and just. The moral voice of restraint, if it ever existed, has been left behind. Even if Israel wiped Gaza off the face of the earth, killing tens of thousands in the process, as a Chechnyan laborer working in Sderot proposed to me, one can assume that there would be no protest.
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it is interesting. so much hue and cry was made against saddam's brutalities in the run up to the iraq invasion; but where are the tears for the scores of innocent women and children killed in gaza ? US even abstained in the UN vote.
basicaly it is the israel lobby at work
even wrt mumbai attacks they come up with CRS research reports such as these....indian govt should develop a lobby like the israel.
even pak is doing a better diplomatic job to further its interest in spite of blatant violations.
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