There’s a common joke in Gaza these days. It suggests that the most humane Israeli is the minister who effectively called for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on us during the early stages of the current war.
This joke – if joke is the right word – did not come out of thin air.
The scale of Israel’s horrific destruction – removing entire neighborhoods and radically altering cities and towns – is the equivalent of several nuclear bombs.
Amichai Eliyahu, Israel’s heritage minister, made the infamous comments about nuking Gaza in November. One advantage of the option he tried to put on the table is that a nuclear bomb kills its victims quickly.
That is in stark contrast with Israel’s genocidal war, which has now entered its seventh consecutive month.
I recently visited the southern city of Khan Younis for the first time since a ground invasion which lasted for nearly five months….more
