The tight, absurd parameters of "peace," as they are drawn by the military model we continue to believe in, make real peace --neither bitter nor temporary -- impossible even to imagine. God save us, for instance, from New York Times editorials, which inflict as much damage on civilians as F-16s.
"Israel must defend itself," the paper intoned a few days into the bombing attack on Gaza that quickly left 350 people dead, expressing regret only that the action was "unlikely to...
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