How do you undercut the memory of those people murdered by religious fanatics? You let a war criminal, who politically supports and is politically supported by his own religious fanatics, cynically exploit their memories by marching in a rally.
Seeing a picture of Benjamin Netanyahu at the head of the march in Paris at this moment was just too much. It was just a few months ago that Netanyahu oversaw the killing of hundreds of women and children--people who continue to die to this day because entire neighborhoods have been shattered.
Example:
In its most recent count, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that 2,104 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, including 1,462 civilians, among them 495 children and 253 women. Those U.N. numbers would mean that 69 percent of the total killed were civilians.
When Israel
shelled a school, even the US government could not be silent (and that takes a lot):
The United States said on Sunday it was “appalled” by the “disgraceful” shelling by Israel of a United Nations school sheltering some 3,000 displaced people in southern Gaza.
In language that was rare in its directness and severity, the US denounced the attack which occurred earlier in the day and killed 10 people, noting that the school had been designated a protected location and the Israel Defense Forces had been informed numerous times of the school’s coordinates.
Even
shocking military commanders at the Pentagon:
Though the Pentagon shies from publicly expressing judgments that might fall afoul of a decidedly pro-Israel Congress, senior U.S. military sources speaking on condition of anonymity offered scathing assessments of Israeli tactics, particularly in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.
I suppose we have to wait to let the International Criminal Court act.