"If [Warren] is just reciting the party line to assuage AIPAC and preempt her critics, she lacks basic integrity."
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| Elizabeth Warren: The Democrats' "firebrand' fizzled on
Israel's Gaza massacre. (Photo by Edward Kimmel)
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During her “Office Hours” town hall on August 22, 2014, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren responded to a constituent’s criticism of her support for Congress’ $225 million aid bill to Israel amid the hellfire it was raining down on Gaza, saying:
“[W]hen Hamas puts its rocket launchers next to hospitals, next to schools, they’re using their civilian population to protect their military assets. And I believe Israel has a right, at that point, to defend itself.”
This is pure Washington sophistry. “Defending itself,” in this case, included massively bombing Palestinian civilian infrastructure with the certain knowledge that thousands of innocents would suffer. Amid such ghastly certainty, Israeli officials’ insistence that they don’t target civilians (or blaming the victims for failing to heed warnings to flee) are the rationalizations of sociopathic killers, and Israel’s so-called moral intentions are simply rubble in its collateral damage.
Senator Warren ought to stand next to one of those hospitals, schools, homes, water, power, or sewage treatment plants under an Israeli bombardment and proclaim Israel’s “right to defend itself.”
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