Actions and Intentions in Gaza
Category: WORLDPOST
With the exception of a few courageous journalists, the American view of Gaza -- the posture of looking away with pity and calling it "heartbreaking" as if the wild disparity of deaths did not exist -- has been an abortion of moral responsibility. It testifies to a poverty of leadership almost as desperate as that of the Israelis and the Palestinians half a world away.
By David Bromwich, ContributorProfessor of Literature, Yale University, 2014-08-03