"Palestinian life is life, too, and your suggestion that this is “the worst massacre of civilians in Israel’s history” eclipses many Israeli historical events with higher Palestinian death tolls. Supposing that it is life that you value, and not just the lives on one side or the other, equal attention to those whom Israel kills ought really to change your tone."
October 10, 2023
If, as you write, “to understand the roots of violence is in no way to justify it,” the least we can ask is that you extend this principle to Israeli violence in the days and weeks ahead. This weekend’s extremely rare event – a crisis in which more Israelis than Palestinians are killed – is already being overshadowed by a Palestinian death toll that, one more, is rising higher by the hundreds.
Palestinian life is life, too, and your suggestion that this is “the worst massacre of civilians in Israel’s history” eclipses many Israeli historical events with higher Palestinian death tolls. Supposing that it is life that you value, and not just the lives on one side or the other, equal attention to those whom Israel kills ought really to change your tone.
Dan Freeman-Maloy, Montreal