Pre-Historic Events

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CounterPunch: A Perilous Excursion Into the Distant Past, Starting Seven Whole Weeks Ago (7/21/06) by Alexander Cockburn Responding to U.S. television "networks giv[ing] unlimited airtime to Israel's apologists," and newscasters' apparent "guiding rule" that "memory is supposed to stop in its tracks at June 28, 2006"--when Hamas killed two Israeli soldiers and captured one--Cockburn invites readers on a brief excursion into pre-history.

I’m talking about June 20, 2006, when [an] Israeli...attempted extrajudicial assassination attempt...missed the car. Instead it killed three Palestinian children and wounded 15. Back we go again to June 13, 2006.... Another attempted extrajudicial assassination...killed nine innocent Palestinians. Now we’re really in the dark ages, reaching far, far back to June 9, 2006, when Israel shelled a beach in Beit Lahiya killing eight civilians and injuring 32. That’s...20 dead and 47 wounded, all of them Palestinians, most of them women and children.... History is dangerous, which is why the U.S. press gives it a wide birth. But even without the benefit of historical instruction, a majority of Americans in CNN’s instant poll—about 55 per cent out of 800,000 as of midday, July 19—don’t like what Israel is up to.