A Menacing Silence: Why is the reality of Palestinian suffering denied in the Israeli consciousness? ( www.bostonreview.net )
Underneath all this there is a menacing silence. The catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, if it is mentioned at all, appears to Israelis only as a “challenge”: a PR challenge in international media, a legal challenge in the Hague, a diplomatic challenge in meetings with foreign officials. For the Israeli public, there are merely...