Israel's Assault on Gaza Obscures Core Issues: Racism, Occupation, Colonization

AlterNet - Another Israeli assault on Gaza will produce more red herrings.  These include an obsessive focus on Israeli suffering, linked to an insistence on equivalence between intensive Israeli air raids on a tiny and highly populated strip of land killing at least 81 Palestinians and wounding 615 thus far, most of them civilians, and inaccurate Palestinian rocket-fire which has reached distant targets but has harmed no Israelis so far.  Read more.