Your tax dollars at work
The latest atrocity of the Israeli government is a missile attack in which one Hamas activist was assassinated, 15 civilians were killed including eight children as young as two months, and 154 civilians were wounded.
Ordinarily sensible people use the word terrorist to describe someone who would even threaten to fire a missile at an apartment building in a densely populated residential neighborhood, let alone someone evil enough to actually commit the act. If the target were American, the retaliatory strike would already be underway. But the target is not American, and the killers are U.S. allies, flying a U.S.-supplied warplane, so the word terrorist is to be reserved for those on the ground.
The Israeli Defense Ministry actually claims to be surprised by the civilian casualties. “According to the information we had, no civilians were expected to be in his vicinity,” the ministry said. This lie is shocking even by the low standards of Israeli government credibility.
Even the U.S. can’t stomach it, which is a bit of a shame since we paid for it, and in every way encouraged Israel to wage war against the Palestinians.