The Uneasy Debate About the War

Mark Mazower’s article, Israel, Gaza, and the Uneasy Debate About the War appeared in the Financial Times.

“Earlier this week, the Middle East was still trying to come to terms with Donald Trump’s vision of Gaza as a Mediterranean Florida when police in Jerusalem raided and trashed a well-known Palestinian bookstore, the Educational Bookshop, on the implausible grounds that its owners were disturbing the peace. Diplomats from a number of countries crowded into the courtroom for the hearing in a show of solidarity with the arrested men, while customers flocked to the bookshop itself. Such public support was heartening. Yet the flagrant abuse of police power indicated the government’s sense of impunity: in Israel, these days, compassion is in short supply towards Palestinians. The question of who deserves compassion, and where it has gone, is the subject of three recent books reviewed here.”

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