One cannot fail to see how Hamas has been ‘blitzed’ . All the evidence is in one image. All those destroyed buildings harboured Hamas fighters. Everybody knows that. The strikes were so precise that Hamas now is just a ghost, something of the past. Metro is a free paper owned by the right-wing reactionary Daily Mail. When I looked at the BBC Middle East section yesterday, I could not find anywhere the number of Palestinians killed so far. The hostages stories are more visible though. Compare that with the war in Ukraine and how the BBC counted/estimated the killed. Updated 24 October 15:40 BST: I have finally seen a figure published by the BBC . But the corporation implies that we mustn’t believe the number because it is published by the Hamas-run ministry of health. Thus back to the Metro front page: strikes by the Israeli army have been so precise that any number of victims claimed must be inflated, and we should ignore any historical precedent to prove otherwise. It would be better
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51