Talking to Israelis is so useless

That’s not my headline, it’s Noam Sheizaf’s. It’s from his great blog Promised Land . Up until recently Sheizaf worked for the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv . Here he recounts a typical debate he gets into with fellow Israelis, and says it’s getting tiresome: I try to speak about Gaza, and say, the illegal use of phosphorus bombs against civilians. “How do you know the IDF did that?” the answer comes. “Don’t say you believe that self-hating Jew, Goldstone?” - Well, there are pictures of the bombs exploding, there are people with phosphorus-like burns, and I know that every combat unit in the IDF carries standard phosphorus ammunition, because I’ve been there and I even used it in training. - You don’t get it, do you? The Palestinians want to destroy us all. What we did in Gaza was self-defense, like everyone else would have done.... [read full story]                    

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