The Register-Guard · Eugene, OR · 7 August 2014
CP-2014-068
Gaza war is wake-up call for Mideast moderates
Thomas Friedman
Transcribed from the clipping
KIBBUTZ EIN HASHLOSHA, Israel — At 6:02 a.m. Saturday, the air raid siren sounded over Tel Aviv. I was rousted by the hotel staff from my room and ushered into the windowless service elevator area with two French families, everyone in their pajamas. After 10 minutes, when the Hamas missile threat had passed, we were allowed to go back to our rooms.
As I slipped back into bed, the hotel loudspeaker bellowed, “Dear guests, you may return to your routine.” With Israel and Hamas winding down their latest war, I could only wonder whether the hotel manager was also speaking to them. Is that it?
More than 60 Israeli soldiers and some 1,800 Hamas fighters and Gazans — many hundreds of them children and civilians — killed, and everyone just goes back to their routines? I don’t think so. Some new and significant things were revealed here.
How this transcription was made
Date confirmed on the page (folio). Filed under the archive’s spelling; the page prints “The Register Guard”.
Context added by this archive
Folio confirms label exactly: “The Register-Guard · Thursday, August 7, 2014 · A9.” Signed at foot: “Thomas Friedman is a columnist for The New York Times.”
The Winter passage reads in full: “The Times of Israel reported that, at the start of this war, ‘in an official dispatch sent to battalion and company commanders on July 9, Givati Brigade commander Colonel Ofer Winter’ — one of Israel’s top officers on the Gaza front — ‘told his subordinates that ‘History has chosen us to spearhead the fighting against the terrorist ‘Gazan’ enemy which abuses, blasphemes and curses the God of Israel’s defense forces.’’ Frightening.”
No Palestinian is quoted anywhere in the column.
Cite this clipping
"Gaza war is wake-up call for Mideast moderates," The Register-Guard, 7 August 2014, p. A9. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2014-068. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2014-068
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