We'll all be Gazans soon enough

It’s quite amazing what Israel has been getting a free pass on recently. The spectacle of professional army snipers using unarmed civilians for target practice at the Gaza fence passes without comment in the West.

Oh shush now… that’s the most moral army in the world… and don’t you think Israel has a right to defend itself? What are you, some kind of anti-Semite? Snap out of it man.

The Greatest Leader since Moses hasn’t a clue what he’s in the process of unleashing. It seems folly to invite a death match with an adversary who has nothing to lose. Then again, Bibi and his enablers in DC have never yet suffered a setback in the pursuit of their genocidal agenda, to wit, cleansing Judea and Samaria of the Palestinians.

And in the age of Trump they can be forgiven for thinking they’re home free.

But maybe what we’re seeing here is a glimpse into the future. Perhaps this is the new normal in dealing with inconvenient populations. The new normal looks a lot like the good old days, when the powerful could annihilate the weak simply because they were more powerful and they could. That was just the way the world worked.

For a few hundred years we tried to believe we were better than that.

That’s why we don’t want to look at Gaza today. We’d rather look away…