Which Shoe ? Whose Foot ?

In a house of mirrors things are not always exactly what they seem. Sometimes things seem so out of whac they defy unscrambling.

Consider this strange and inexplicable tale.

A Palestinian gunman boards a bus in Israel and proceeds to shoot several passengers with an assault rifle. Several are killed, many more wounded. As he tries to reload the second time, his victims turn on him and beat him to death.

A callous and horrifying attack and we are appropriately angry at the perpetrator and glad for his fate.

The curious part is the reaction of the Israeli press and police. The press treats the gunman as they do terror victims, running "God Bless His Soul" under his picture and the police start an investigations aimed at finding his "murderers". What is wrong with this picture ?

There's been a switch. The ethnicities have been changed to illustrate how completely we have learned to accept the Israeli perspective on conflicts with the Palestinians. It was an Israeli soldier shooting Palestinians on the bus. Oh, I see ! It was Palestinians who turned on the gunman and killed him. Making him a martyr, of course ! And now his death much be avenged as a murder. Couldn't be clearer.

See the whole story by Jonathan Cook at Counterpunch, be ashamed and

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jd