Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Sickness
Juan Cole puts his finger on the unease most of the world has toward Israel’s war against Lebanon:
What was done to Lebanon as a whole is among the most horrible war crimes of the young 21st century. And that it was done tells me that there is something sick in the heart of the Israeli military and political elite, a sickness of the soul that had better be faced and remedied before our entire world catches the contagion.
If you ever needed proof of the blackness of the human soul and our utter need for redemption, the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab conflict of the last several thousand years clearly provides it. The current war in Lebanon is only the latest display of man’s incredible capacity for inhumanity toward his fellow man.
