Tornado Alley (PROG)

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I'm reminded of the scene from Schindler's List, where the Nazi commander plows up a Jewish cemetery and makes walkways out of the stones. He says, "Today... is history." Words to that effect.

“Whoever dares to accuse our soldiers of war crimes are hypocritical liars who lack so much as one drop of morality,” Netanyahu said in his infamous “Amalek” remarks. “The IDF is the most moral army in the world.” No bomb or shell is unleashed on hospital or museum, we’re reassured, without good intelligence of an enemy cache or bunker or tunnel. Such tortured logic has its limits. The artillery damage to the 1600-year-old St. Hilarion monastery complex—the oldest Christian site of its kind in the Middle East—was clearly inflicted because the plastic roof covering the ruins provides excellent cover from JDAM guided bombs. The Greek-era site of Anthedon Harbour with its cemetery and seaside ramparts needed to be fired upon in case it was used as a tactical defensive position. The Al Sammara bathhouse in Zeitoun Quarter, probably dating from the fourteenth century, was obviously obliterated because Hamas fighters were caught sweltering in their towels.

Sickening shit.

The campus was kept intact longer than any of Gaza’s other universities because it was occupied as an IDF command post for two months; in mid-January, Israa was flattened to the cheers of watching troops. The 3,000 artifacts from Gaza’s pre-Islamic past in its collection were either looted or pulverised. The divisional commander responsible for bringing it down, Barak Hiram, was later censured for doing so without higher sanction—permission the commander’s superiors would have given anyway: “If you had submitted the request to collapse the university for my approval,” Major General Yaron Finkelman informed Hiram, “I would have approved it.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/180082/israel-demolishing-gazas-cultural-heritage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily&vgo_ee=SgU1l6yDZH0K2ixZ4qibV0vSZsSvWYYI%2BYpwDZc38Rj0%3ABiU91SO6OzILyhp2sS8UwLvY7mKSff6N