A member of Islamic Jihad was assassinated in Gaza, but it wasn’t done by a clean, neat, surgical strike, as coverage by Western media suggested. It was instead a brutal strike that resulted in 32 Palestinians killed and over 80 wounded.
A most disappointing response to the Israeli violence was offered by Nickolay Mladenov, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.
Mladenov, whose job should have long been deemed pointless considering that no “peace process” actually exists, expressed his “concern” about the “ongoing and serious escalation between Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Israel”.
Not only Mladenov’s statement creates a moral equivalence between an occupying power, which instigated the war in the first place, and a small group of a few hundred armed men, it is also dishonest.
