"A 6-year-old Palestinian girl from Gaza was killed by Israeli fire, June 12. “Medics say the girl was decapitated by a (tank) shell,” the Associated Press reported the next day. The Israeli military said the soldiers opened fire in retaliation to “militants launching rockets into Israel.” AP dispassionately elaborated that “Gaza militants fire rockets and mortars into Israel almost daily.” The story of a few lines ends with another corroboration of the claims made by the Israeli military: “the shelling occurred near the border where militants fired 30 rockets into Israel on Tuesday.”
But this is not another tirade about the dehumanizing reporting of the media, where the death of innocent nameless Palestinians are often, if not always, blamed, one way or another on the ‘militants”. Neither is the evoking of this freshest tragedy – the child victim is later named Hadeel al-Smeiri – is meant to underscore the daily crimes committed by the Israeli military against Palestinians in the occupied territories, ones that largely go unnoticed, buried in the not-so-important news items, or used to accentuate cold-hearted assertions such as blaming Palestinians themselves for forcing Israel’s hand to carry out such tragic ‘acts of retaliation.’
....Meanwhile, recent news reports spoke of assurances made by Abbas to the anxious Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that his offer to dialogue with Hamas is conditional. Why condition talks among brethren while allowing Israel the endless benefit of the doubt in stretching the meaningless ‘peace process’, with no end in sight, while allowing its army to kill kids like Hadeel, at will and without repercussions, whatsoever?
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