In the coming days we are likely to see a replay of all the air campaigns witnessed in the Middle East over the past half century - and it is civilians who will suffer
In the coming days we are likely to see a replay of all the air campaigns witnessed in the Middle East over the past half century – and it is civilians who will sufferPalestinians evacuate a wounded youth after an Israeli air strike in Rafah, Gaza Strip
Israel says that its planes and artillery have hit 500 Hamas and Islamic Jihad related targets, absurdly claiming to have precise information on the whereabouts of the enemy, though we know that a week ago this same Israeli intelligence failed to spot preparations for a massive Hamas offensive. All wars are inevitably propaganda wars, something that has been the case since the time of the Pharaohs. It stands to reason that people who are trying to kill each other will not hesitate to tell lies. Such is the muddle and fast pace of military conflict that the fabricators usually get away with fake or exaggerated stories which, at crucial moments, dominate the news agenda.Systematic lies are told to conceal the fact that targets are routinely misidentified.
Such cynical advice is particularly appropriate today when governments across the world are claiming that they did not foresee, and could not have done anything to avert, the eminently predictable crisis now engulfing the Middle East.
In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American and British armies never found a way of dealing with old-fashioned explosives buried under the road and detonated by command wire controlled by somebody a few hundred yards off.
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