by Rolf Verleger, University of Lübeck
Source: Occupation Magazine
What would you do – the Israeli historian Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger wrote in the FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) – if your neighbor constantly threw stones and Molotov cocktails at your apartment? Wouldn’t you at some time pick up a gun and put an end to the doings? And if this neighbor surrounded himself with his children, so you couldn’t hit him, wouldn’t you then even take a gun with a telescopic sight? Indeed, did not Hamas behave in Gaza just like this neighbor when it shot at Israeli cities with their explosive rockets? Therefore, Prof. Oz-Salzberger wrote, Israel’s current war against Gaza was a just war.
With this beautiful example of the reader and his neighbor one can indeed get across a lot of things vividly. For simplicity let us call you and the family that is terrorized by the mean neighbor the landlord and let us now look at the curious circumstances in the apartment house. The neighbor’s apartment is Gaza.
