Bastard

Israeli PM Ehud Olmert responding to European criticism of Israel's war in Lebanon:

"Please, don't preach to us about the treatment of civilians."

Update: Olmert made this statement while bitterly complaining that the European powers participated in the bombing of Kosovo (which took a heavy civilian toll) while, at the same time , never came under attack themselves.

As usual, no one can appreciate the plight of the Israelis.

The bombing of Yugoslavia was a horrendous act and the Europeans (and the Bush administration) are indeed hypocrites, but any attempt to justify your own participation in a slaughter is reprehensible. Olmert is a State Terrorist. War is Terror and Terror one way of fighting a War. Israel's bombs have already killed more CIVILIANS in Lebanon than all the suicide bombs of the recent Intifada. War is Terror and Terror is War. It's just that War is the usual label for what States do while Terror is what those resisting the actions of States are labelled by States. Those on the ground who are victim of State Terrorism often have a very different view of what States say and do. . .

Olmert's to my mind is a

We-are-under-permanent-attack, we've-done-nothing-to-provoke-these-attacks, we-must-defend-our-nation-at-any-and-all-cost-while-refusing-to-admit-our-complicity/duplicity in-the-making-of-our-own-screwed-up-situation kind of fundamentalism that is equally as dangerous and actually far more stupid than Islamic fundamentalism.

This is also the ridiculous and self-destructive kind of fundamentalism that, alongside market fundamentalism, has motivated everything the Bush administration has done since 911.

We can thank Bush and friends for letting this evil genie out of the bottle. See this here. And this for good measure.