The matter of which side fired the first shot was disputed. General Bacon claimed that one of the soldier's rifles accidentally discharged, causing the Pillagers hiding in the woods to think that they were being attacked, while the Pillagers said the battle started when several soldiers were seen firing at an Indian canoe carrying several women as their steamship approached Sugar Point-
Now imagine how the newspapers of the time reported that. Now imagine the first paragraph of one of those reports.
Israeli tanks and bulldozers crossed into the Gaza Strip on Friday after the Jewish state warned it would retaliate against Hamas for a deadly explosion of violence earlier this week.The delusion is as stark and futile as it was then, with the same desperate self-righteousness and outrage.
It would be much simpler and better for everyone if the Israeli government and its supporters abandoned any pretense of moral behavior, and just put it all right out there. Stop pretending to be anything other than what you really are, amoral thugs who've driven themselves into a corner from which the only exit is humility and remorse, or a steadily mounting annihilation of everyone who gets in the way, including eventually, inevitably, yourselves.
