Accidental Autoblog Of Inconvenient Truth

Please explain to me why I'm anti-semitic for not being comfortable with this: http://t.co/zQVMFXEuKB

— Shabogan Graffiti (@_Jack_Graham_) September 23, 2015

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One of the dangers of having my twitter faves automatically pumped to the blog is if I fat-finger something on my phone, or if, like today, it never loads tweet and I just start hammering the blank screen, then give up and close all the apps to start over, I've faved something I never saw. But, even though I was surprised to see this had made its way to the blog, when I did follow the link, it was a nauseating reminder that the problem in the Middle East is more complicated, and the U.S. is far more complicit in those problems, than is generally reported.

Operation Protective Edge: A war waged on Gaza's children

Operation Protective Edge: A war waged on Gaza's children | Defence for Children International Palestine:

Image via NewStatesman

Operation Protective Edge, which lasted 50 days between July 8 and August 26, claimed the lives of 2,220 Palestinians, including at least 1,492 civilians, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). DCIP independently verified the deaths of 547 Palestinian children among the killed in Gaza, 535 of them as a direct result of Israeli attacks. Nearly 68 percent of the children killed by Israeli forces were 12 years old or younger. [Report]

The report is damning, careful & meticulous. Expect academics, policymakers & most media to complete ignore it though, as it's about Israel.

— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) April 17, 2015