פשע מלחמה לא בוצע כאן אלא במקום
אחר (לפחות לפי המידע החלקי הלילה), ויש אירופאי שמזכיר לדעת הקהל במערב (חלקה) את צביעותה בעניין, ולוקח אחריות על מה שהממשלה שלו היתה שותפה בו (אבל ימשיכו להגיד שרק אצלנו יש "הלקאה עצמית"). בשבילך אמנסטי טובים רק כשהם כותבים את מה שנוח לך, כמו על הרוסים בצ'צ'ניה, או על הפיגועים, במקום לכבד את כל העבודה שהם עושים. עכשיו תקלל את הכותב שוב ואל תתייחס חלילה לדברים. Want to criticise the Israelis for shooting stone-throwers in Gaza? The US does the same in Falujah Robert Fisk 12 July 2003 A few days ago, the American forces in Baghdad drove 17 truckloads of rubble and dirt up to the secret military area of Baghdad airport to air-freight to the United States. No journalists reported on this macabre operation, even if they knew about it. For the muck came from the site of an atrocity committed by the US Air Force at the end of its bombardment of Iraq. The Americans believed Saddam Hussein was hiding in a suburb called Mansour and so, despite knowing that the area was packed with civilians - the operation would not be "risk-free", as one of the US spokesmen later claimed, the nearest he acknowledged that it was a gross breach of the Geneva conventions - they dropped "bunker-buster" bombs on the densely packed houses of Mansour. They killed 16 civilians, including children. But where was Saddam? It was a sign of their desperation that almost two months after they occupied Baghdad, the Americans suddenly began scrabbling through the Mansour debris. Back in the United States, scientists would be tasked to hunt for evidence of Saddam's DNA in the dirt. I'm not sure whether precedents allow others to commit war crimes in the future - or whether a repeat performance allows others to justify past precedents. But does Mansour not remind you of Ariel Sharon's little operation in Gaza a few months ago, when he ordered an Israeli pilot to drop a massive bomb on a crowded Gaza slum, demolishing a building, killing a Hamas official and - by the strange and beautiful symmetry of such atrocities - massacring 16 Palestinian civilians, including many children? We condemned Sharon's slaughter of the innocent, which he called "a great success". But how can we do so now, when we are silent about our own murders in Mansour?
