{"id":23833,"date":"2014-07-16T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T23:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=23833"},"modified":"2014-07-17T08:27:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:27:37","slug":"bombing-a-prison-camp-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/bombing-a-prison-camp-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombing a Prison Camp for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even the shameless Israeli state seems momentarily shamed, as it has\u00a0announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/17\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-strip.html\">five-hour ceasefire<\/a> in their bombardment of Gaza after having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/17\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-strip-beach-explosion-kills-children.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=a-lede-package-region&amp;region=lede-package&amp;WT.nav=lede-package&amp;_r=0\">shelled to death<\/a> four Palestinian children who had been playing soccer on a beach, thereby presumably serving as &#8220;human shields&#8221; for Hamas fighters ingeniously\u00a0hiding\u00a0under the sand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2014\/07\/17\/world\/07GAZA-1\/07GAZA-1-master675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over 36 children have now been killed by Israel&#8217;s assaults out of 200+ total (mostly civilian) Palestinian deaths. Such a high proportion is hardly surprising, given that <a href=\"https:\/\/afsc.org\/resource\/gaza-under-siege\">a majority of the population in Gaza is under 18, and over 40 percent are age 14 and under<\/a>. Israel is bombing what is for the most part\u00a0a vast open-air prison camp for children. This is what the Obama administration refers to as Israel &#8220;defending itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #141823\">&#8220;Eye for an eye&#8221; probably wouldn&#8217;t make the whole world blind. But, &#8220;the eyes of your children and\u00a0neighbors for an eye,&#8221; sure as hell will.\u00a0This bombing campaign of collective punishment is bloodthirsty, rank tribalism of the most primitive sort. Every American should be as aghast as <a href=\"http:\/\/loudwire.com\/pearl-jam-eddie-vedder-anti-war-plea-concert\/\">Pearl Jam&#8217;s Eddie Vedder recently expressed\u00a0himself to be<\/a> that his tax dollars are paying for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the shameless Israeli state seems momentarily shamed, as it has\u00a0announced a five-hour ceasefire in their bombardment of Gaza after having shelled to death four Palestinian children who had been playing soccer on a beach, thereby presumably serving as &#8220;human shields&#8221; for Hamas fighters ingeniously\u00a0hiding\u00a0under the sand. 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