The difference, I think, is that they're not trying to exterminate all Iranians because they know they can't. The killing of children in Gaza is definitely an extermination program. In this case it seems to be an accident. But they don't seem exactly broken up about it. Because they're monsters.
To continue the idea in the Gramschi quote, I'd like to offer a few lines from WB Yeats' great poem "The Second Coming, written in 1919."
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;"
Yeats was an Irishman, and the Irish know colonialism when they see it, perhaps even in the earliest stages. The last lines may be more prescient than we ever thought.
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Not sure that killing kids at school is an accident. The similarity to Gaza is exact.
The difference, I think, is that they're not trying to exterminate all Iranians because they know they can't. The killing of children in Gaza is definitely an extermination program. In this case it seems to be an accident. But they don't seem exactly broken up about it. Because they're monsters.
To continue the idea in the Gramschi quote, I'd like to offer a few lines from WB Yeats' great poem "The Second Coming, written in 1919."
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;"
Yeats was an Irishman, and the Irish know colonialism when they see it, perhaps even in the earliest stages. The last lines may be more prescient than we ever thought.
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
Balfour Declaration 1917.
I agree, Joy. The Irish really do know colonialism. That's why they've been so stalwart in their support for Palestine.