After the Destruction
Against The Current vol. 139
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/2079
Date Written: 2009-03-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13497
As Barack Obama mounted the Washington, DC inaugural stage on the euphoric morning of January 20, 2009, in Gaza the sounds of Israel’s invasion — the U.S.-supplied F-16s’ bombing runs, the artillery shells that accurately hit their targets of hospitals and clinics and refugee schools with children inside, the clearly-marked made-in-USA canisters of white phosphorus that burn people alive from the inside, the newly field-tested “DIME” bombs that efficiently tear multiple limbs off the victims — had gone at least temporarily silent.