Nightmare in Beit Hanoun How Gaza Offends Us All

JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN

An opened jaw with yellowed teeth gaped out of its bloodied shroud. The rest of the head parts were wrapped in a plastic bag placed atop the jaw and nostrils, as if to be close to the place to which it once belonged. The bag was red from the pieces that were stuffed inside it. Below the jaw was a human neck slit open midway down: a fleshy, wet wound smiling pink and oozing out from the browned skin around it, the neck that was still linked to the body below it. Above him, in the upper freezer of the morgue lay a dead woman, her red hennaed hair visible for the first time to strange men around her. More red plastic wrapped around an otherwise absent chin. She was dead for demonstrating outside a mosque in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza where more than 60 men sheltered during the artillery onslaught by Israeli tanks and cannons...

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Policy-change for dummies

Arablinks.blogspot.com

...The Bush administration stood out yesterday for its failure to condemn the Israeli slaughter of 20 unarmed residents of Beit Hanoun in the worst round of civilian killing by the Israeli occupation forces in a number of years, lending support to Atwan's argument that any engagement in a so-called "political process" in these circumstances is a sham. There is no point. The same logic is taking hold among the Sunni political parties in Iraq. At the most delicate point in the national reconciliation process, the symbol to many of an independent Iraq is sentenced to death by hanging. It was a gratuitous act, and probably there is no one of the age of reason in Iraq, or children either, for that matter, who doesn't realize the Bush administration was behind this, and that the logic seemed clear. Those who make the real decisions are against national reconciliation. What point is there in pretending...

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