whitewashing

A great post at Tikun Olan comparing the difference between the Israeli Ha'aretz, and the Americn NYT's Ethan Bronner's reporting on soldiers' stories of their activities in Gaza, where civilian deaths far outweighed combatant. One soldier had this to say:

“What did you think would happen?” a senior officer wondered this week. “We sent 10,000 troops into Gaza, more than 200 tanks and armored personnel carriers, 100 bulldozers. What were 100 bulldozers going to do there?”

Read the rest of Richard Silverstein's story to see if you are even getting a quarter of the story that is out there. The original (or ongoing) testimony of the soldiers is here, this is the Bronner article, and this is the AP article which verifies the IDF stories with Palestinian stories. All can be found in the Tikun Olan post linked to above.