Crocodile Tears

Palestinian historian, Tarif Khalidi, sent me this (I cite with his permission): "The grief shown for the civilian deaths in Gaza by Shimon Peres and the Israeli UN representative, among others, adds a wholly new dimension of significance to the phrase “crocodile tears”. It was Ben Gurion who first showed them how to do it in 1948 after the butchery at Dayr Yasin with his tearful telegram of regret to King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan. We must implore the Israelis not to shed any more tears for fear the river of tears might overflow and flood us all. They murder some 500 women and children and maim at least a 1000 more and the world is asked to applaud the delicacy of their grief. THESE are the real obscenities of the Gaza war, a war waged against a population that Israel itself had once turned into refugees and for whose indiscriminate slaughter it is now grieving."