Richard Pithouse, The Con
As the Israeli state
rains its murder on the people of Gaza we are confronted with a stark
demonstration of the ways in which there is, in so many quarters, official
sanction for according radically different values to human lives. Some of us
are taken as sacrosanct, others as disposable. It has often been suggested that
in the case of Israel and Palestine the inequality in the value ascribed to
human life can be rendered as a mathematical ratio. In this calculus there is
no such thing as a life for a life, or a prisoner for a prisoner, or a set
amount invested in the education of each child.
