Shortly after O’Reilly’s picture was published Israel announced that it was ‘investigating’ the accusation that it was responsible for the school shelling. This was to be expected. No government will readily admit that it bombed a school if this is in any way deniable – or even postponable. The calculation is that by the time responsibility is conceded the degree of blame or temperature of outrage – and the attendant political consequences – will have somewhat diminished.
