Uri Avnery making sense, as usual

You'd think Uri Avnery would get tired of saying the same things over and over again, but thankfully he doesn't:

The real effect of [Israel's Gaza] operation is not expressed in material and quantitative facts: so-and-so many dead, so-and-so many injured, so-and-so much destroyed. It is expressed in psychological results that cannot be measured, and therefore are inaccessible to the minds of generals: how much hatred has been added to the seething pool, how many new potential suicide bombers were produced, how many people vowed revenge and became ticking bombs - like the Jerusalem youngster, who woke up one bright morning this week, got himself a weapon, went to the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, the mother of all settlements, and killed as many as he could.

Now the political and military leadership of Israel sits down to discuss what to do, how to "respond". No new idea has come up or will come up, because not one of these politicians and generals is able to bring up a new idea. They can only go back to the hundred things they have already done, and that have failed a hundred times.

Of the same things he keeps saying over and over again, this is a particularly good example.  Read the rest here.

Comments

[Dan Coyle]

Over the past seven years I've been reading stuff on the Israeli/Palestine conflict, Uri Avnery has proven to be the most consistently insightful.