Nazi Creeping annexation of the West Bank
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Creeping annexation of the West Bank and wanton cruelty in Gaza: Israel’s March of Folly
By Uri Avnery
One can look at events in Gaza through the left or through the right eye. One can condemn them as inhuman, cruel and mistaken, or justify them as necessary and unavoidable.
But there is one adjective that is beyond question: They are stupid.
If the late Barbara Tuchman were still alive, she might be tempted to add another chapter to her groundbreaking opus, The March of Folly: a chapter titled “Eyeless in Gaza”.
The latest episode in this epic started a few months ago, when independent activists in the Gaza Strip called for a march to the Israeli border, which Hamas supported. It was called “The Great March of Return”, a symbolic gesture for the more than a million Arab residen...