Gaza: More Funerals, More Questions

Day six in the latest Israeli military action against Hamas; another day of sharply contrasting images. At a funeral in Gaza City, members of the Dalu family carried aloft, wrapped in Palestinian flags, the bodies of four children killed by an Israeli bomb that demolished their home on Sunday. “Do these children look like terrorists?” grief-stricken relatives and neighbors asked reporters. In Israel, where dozens of Hamas rockets continued to fall on (mostly unoccupied) areas, Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet met to discuss their next move. And four thousand miles away in Rangoon, a day after reasserting that he is “fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself,” President Obama delivered a speech hailing the recent democratic reforms in Burma.

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