This morning, on NPR, Steve Inskeep interviews an Israeli minister of Palestinian affairs, named Dommer or so, who assures that his government is doing all it can to protect civilians in Gaza. Among other promises, he even offers guaranties for the future … as long as the Hamas is whipped out of Gaza. Never does he say that any ‘future decisions’ will ever be in the hands of the Palestinian people!

It is this colonial mindset, this sense of ownership, of proprietorship, which is, so far, not vivid enough in peoples’ consciousness. This blindness feeds the possibility for Israel to pass for the victim of the Hamas, of Palestine altogether. It has to be washed away.

Otherwise, the war will go on, with short periods of ‘reconstruction’. Until the adolescents of today learn how to fire a Kalashnikov. Netanyahu is an ass. He manipulates his people. Israelis, also, are victims of his theatrics. So many similarities with the Trump circus!