AGRESSIF!

Human Rights Watch claims Israel committed war crimes in its use of air-burst white phosphorous artillery shells (guardian.co.uk)


Fun fact: As this was going on, I was getting escorted out of a pro-Israel rally in Paris by an armed group of Mossad agents. AGRESSIF!

*Fun fact mentioned not just to show how rad I am (I was terrified my keffiyeh would get me killed and they'd only much later find my kippah tucked into my coat pocket), but to present the irony of an American (read small-d democratic) citizen being terrorized while on vacation in an arch-democratic state by representatives of an allied nation (... Read Moreread the only small-d democratic nation in the Mideast) to both my country and my host country.

Fear, fear of terror, fear of dissent, or fear of getting caught, can make small-d democrats do strange and terrible things if they let it.

The price of inalienable rights is conscience. If citizens can't rely on their governments to have on, we have to step up and become that conscience ourselves.