For what?

 
Latest Israel invasion

In mid-June 1967, I was a young man in Berkeley in need of a medical. The waiting and examination rooms were filled with blaring radio noise. Evidently it turned out to be by a Jewish randomly chosen doctor. Both the doctors and the nurses were laughing and cheering at every new report of Israel soldiers killing more Palestinians, Syrians and Egyptians in their pre-emptive war on their neighbors. At that moment I lost my belief in the Israel of Exodus, Leon Uris and the socialist kibbutz. It had almost all been a lie.

Thirty-nine years later and 100 Palestinians have been killed in the last three-week offensive, the death toll is 320 to the sixth day of the Lebanon invasion, almost all civilians. Lebanon destroyed for a second time in 25 years.

For what? It can't be just the three captured soldiers. After all, Israel has thousands of captives.

Let me guess. The Israelis are feeling they have lost their pride with Sharon pulling out of Gaza. How many enemy deaths will it take to assuage their pride? It looks like about a thousand this time. Should take about two to three weeks more, if the U.S. supports them; maybe occupy a little more land.