Please take a minute to thank Daily Mail columnist Peter McKay for an excellent commentary in today's edition entitled "Slaughter won't end this war".
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There is no link to the article on the newspaper's website, so following are extracts:
"Yesterday the broken body of a dead child, lying outside a village in Lebanon, was shown in the newspapers. The caption said: 'One of at least 15 children and five adults who died when Israeli jets attacked a convoy of fleeing villagers in southern Lebanon'."
"The tragic infant in the foreground - its gender isn't obvious - looks to be aged about three or four. The body is twisted, flung there by the explosion. A shoe lies 6ft away."
"What's new is the savagery of Israel's response. After the capture of two Israeli soldiers, Israel appears intent on destroying Lebanon - Hezbollah's base - by attacking both its people and its infrastructure."
"Would it have been considered reasonable if Britain had bombed Dublin because of the support there for the IRA's killing campaign in England? Or Boston, where the IRA rattled its collection tins most successfully? The circumstances aren't exactly analogous - they never are - but surely they are enough to give pause for thought."
"Ehud Olmert promises 'far-reaching consequences' after eight of his people were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on Haifa. How much more 'far reaching' can Israeli retaliation get before we've a full-blown war?"
"There's a desperate need for statesmanship, but what have we got? Bush's support for Israel - whatever its leaders do - and his counter-productive 'war on terror' has drained his credibility outside America. Inside, too, judging by his approval ratings."
"Ehud Olmert's threat of 'far-reaching consequences' seems to be an echo of his former boss, Ariel Sharon, who lies comatose in an Israeli clinic after a devastating stroke."
"This whole enterprise is underwritten by America. President George W. Bush's era is drawing to a close unless, in 2008, a Republican successor can prolong his 'war on terror'."
Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 (Archive on Monday, July 24, 2006)
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