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多少、眠りやすくなった気がする。9時か10時に一度目が覚めたが、起きたのは午後2時だった…。3時半ごろからさっきまで、またTBPのCoffee Beanで過ごす。明日は雇用契約書の内容を確認する。

... Presumably, Israel's population largely agreed with Begin's assertion that Israel "never attacked the civilian population in Beirut," and with the statement of Defense Minister Sharon that "I would not be exaggerating by saying that there is no other country in the world that can boast of such a capacity for confrontation and such successes with such supreme universal moral value as little Israel." The Knesset voted 50-40 to accept Sharon’s statement, rejecting by 52-38 a Labor Party statement that “the military advantage gained by the heavy bombing and shelling of Beirut 'did not justify the damage caused Israel'," obviously the only relevant consideration. (Chomsky’s emphasis, p. 254)

... In a huge government-sponsored demonstration in support of Operation "Peace for Galilee," one sign particularly struck reporters, standing out from the others with red letters and in many copies: "One people, One Army, One Government." A Hebrew-speaking journalist from a German television company "immediately translated it to her friends, pointing out its similarity to the Nazi slogan: 'Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer'," the Labor Party reported. Letters appeared in the press from the generation of Holocaust survivors expressing fear and concern over what they felt was happening. One, Dr. Shlomo Shmelzman, was forbidden by the directors of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center to conduct hunger strike there -- his son was serving with the paratroopers in Lebanon. He wrote a letter to the press announcing his hunger strike in protest against the Lebanon war:

In my childhood I have suffered fear, hunger and humiliation when I passed from the Warsaw Ghetto, through labor camps, to Buchenwald. Today, as a citizen of Israel, I cannot accept the systematic destruction of cities, towns, and refugee camps. I cannot accept the technocratic cruelty of the bombing, destroying and killing of human beings.
I hear too many familiar sounds today, sounds which are being amplified by the war. I hear "dirty Arabs" and I remember "dirty Jews." I hear about "closed areas" and I remember ghettos and camps. I hear "two-legged beasts" and I remember "Untermenschen." I hear about tightening the siege, clearing the area, pounding the city into submission and I remember suffering, destruction, death, blood and murder... Too many things in Israel remind me of too many other things from my childhood. (pp. 257-258)

レバノン侵攻時のイスラエル軍によるアラブ人虐待は、Abu Ghraibの捕虜虐待を連想させる。