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Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura? - The Atlantic (June 2003)

The image of a boy shot dead in his helpless father's arms during an Israeli confrontation with Palestinians has become the Pietà of the Arab world. Now a number of Israeli researchers are presenting persuasive evidence that the fatal shots could not have come from the Israeli soldiers known to have been involved in the confrontation. The evidence will not change Arab minds—but the episode offers an object lesson in the incendiary power of an icon

Tags: reading list, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians, war, world politics on 2009-01-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Aliens

Sullivan says: The inability on both sides to see Jews and Arabs as equally and indistinguishably human before they are Jews and Arabs is at the heart of the problem. In a contest between Israel's flawed democracy and Hamas's theological murderousness, I see no moral equivalence. But Israelis and Arabs demand exactly the same respect as human beings, every single one, including the "worst of the worst". A refusal to grapple with the moral costs of this conflict, and a glib dismissal of the terrible human carnage now being inflicted by Israel (and paid for in part by Americans) is a sign of moral unseriousness. But it is the same mindset that can authorize the torture of human beings and see it as "coercive interrogation" only when Americans do it to Muslims.

Tags: Andrew Sullivan, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israel, world politics, Palestinians, Jews, Arabs on 2009-01-04 -All Annotations (1) -About