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Commentary :: International Relations : Middle East : Military

Nasrallah Didn't Mean To. By Amira Hass

During the past month, Hezbollah's rockets killed 18 Israeli Arabs among the 41 Israeli civilians who died in the war. Clearly, Hassan Nasrallah didn't mean to kill them. But as someone who knows that many Arabs live in northern Israel, and as someone who knows that the launchers for his inaccurate rockets cannot choose the target they will hit—the fact that it was unintended is meaningless. More than anyone, Israelis should understand Nasrallah's claims that this was "unintended," identify with the primacy he attaches to the "unintendedness" relative to the fatal results, and identify with the disjunction he creates between the rationale that is inherent in the war machine he has built and his subjective will. Read more from Israeli journalist Amira Hass….

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