Richard Siverstein, Tikun Olam, Nov 14, 2011
Despite reams of nonsense published by the likes of Eli Lake and Avi Issacharoff in the Washington Times and Haaretz respectively, regurgitating IDF talking points that the Eilat terror attacks were planned and orchestrated by the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza–Idan Landau, Alex Fishman and I knew otherwise. We said the attacks were carried out by Egyptian militants based in Sinai. We said that killing 30 Gazans merely because the Israeli government couldn’t take revenge on Egypt and needed to take revenge on someone, was criminal. Issacharoff even sneered at my talking of this as a potential war crime. Well, who’s sneering now?
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Despite reams of nonsense published by the likes of Eli Lake and Avi Issacharoff in the Washington Times and Haaretz respectively, regurgitating IDF talking points that the Eilat terror attacks were planned and orchestrated by the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza–Idan Landau, Alex Fishman and I knew otherwise. We said the attacks were carried out by Egyptian militants based in Sinai. We said that killing 30 Gazans merely because the Israeli government couldn’t take revenge on Egypt and needed to take revenge on someone, was criminal. Issacharoff even sneered at my talking of this as a potential war crime. Well, who’s sneering now?
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