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Sunday, August 01, 2010
Robert Fisk is useless on Lebanon, but can still be read on Palestine affairs
"The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline.There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that's OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We'd still be investigating this extraordinary phenomenon. Now mark you, I'm not comparing Israel and Hamas. Israel is the country that justifiably slaughtered more than 1,300 Palestinians in Gaza 19 months ago – more than 300 of them children – while the vicious, blood-sucking and terrorist Hamas killed 13 Israelis (three of them soldiers who actually shot each other by mistake)."