Sunday, June 10, 2007

Here, the Independent pays tribute to an Israeli general who helped colonize the West Bank and Gaza, and who is responsible for the murder of scores of Palestinians during his reign. (Read my review of his book The Carrot and the Stick in the Middle East Journal in early 1990s. In that book, when he was trying to show that Arabs are permitted to be represented in state bodies in Israel, he gave the example--I kid you not--of the Israel National Olive board or some silly name like that.) The Independent talks about the "grief" of Gen. Gazit. The White Man notices the grief of the colonizers but not of the colonized.