Counterpunch article

[Nathan Newman]

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From: <ppillai at sprint.ca>
>I was willing to give Leo and other liberals like Newman the benifit of the
>doubt for the first couple of days after the event -- that it was simply
the
>trauma and the shock of the event. But it was very clear that they were not
only
>continuing to depict tues. events as something unprecendented in its horror
and
>in a category all to its self, defying all comparisons to other atrocities
but
>that they were also using the horific trgedy to beat over the head with
>emotional, hysterical outbursts any attempt at contextualizing the recent
>tragedy.

I in fact specifically compared it to other atrocities, from the
brutalization of the Palestinians to the oppression of the Kosovars.  And as
with those cases, I find attempts to "contextualize" the culpability of the
victims for their murder to be unacceptable.

The Israelis justify their actions with just such "contextualization" as do
all sorts of others who engage in mass murder.  To deny and reject such
"contextualization" (excuses) for mass murder is not hysteria, but morality.

-- Nathan Newman