> Silence over one atrocity serves to legitimize all those that came before and those that follow. After Israel got away with bombing its first hospital in Gaza, it knew it could get away unscathed with bombing all hospitals and clinics in Gaza. And it did.
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> The rules of war are set by the winner. What will the new rules look like after Gaza, where what was once forbidden became standard operating procedure?

> what needs to be explained is the inexplicable. What needs to be explicated is the silence in the face of horror.
> Israel has been brazenly upfront about its plans to subdue Gaza, depopulate it of Palestinians, and seize the Strip for itself.

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When the Dead Speak and the Living Refuse to Listen - CounterPunch.org

In this time of silence, many of the words that are spoken have lost all meaning. In fact, their meaning has been inverted, twisted inside out.

^{Jeffrey St. Clair (CounterPunch.org)}