I was living in Israel at the time and the kibbutz tv had tape of the massacre on the evening news. I watched the soldier gather outside the school, heard the command to charge, heard firing, and watched the soldiers sprint towards the school as more firing was heard.

Something seemed amiss–I don’t mean slaughtering children, I mean something about what was going on seemed odd. It wasn’t until they showed the tape again that I figured it out:

As the soldiers were dashing towards the school you heard intense firing, but none of it was from the assaulting troops and there was no sign of shots at the soliders…none falling, no little clods of dirt kicked up. I finally got it: The firing was coming from inside the school but the Palestinians weren’t firing at the troops. With Israeli soliders attacking them, rather than defending themselves they were spraying the schoolchildren. Killing Israeli soldiers wasn’t the point; it was killing children. Which they did, more than two dozen.

And the internationalists memorialize and celebrate this. Every time you think they can’t get any more disgusting and vile, and every time you find out they can.