Silence would really have been golden but Botswana aimed for a bronze prize from the west with a press statement that, ironically, fell far short of the standard that that same west demands from nations it can bully.
Last Saturday, Hamas, the Sunni Islamist organisation that governs the Gaza Strip of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, launched a daring attack on Israel. Hamas fighters (described as “commandos” in some reports) fired thousands of rockets into Israel and also attacked Israeli villages by land, air and sea, indiscriminately killing civilians. As ordinarily happens, Israel has launched its most vicious and disproportionate counter-attack yet. This counterattack, which has decimated whole residential districts in Gaza, is claiming the lives of women and children.
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