The Blundering Slaughter By the IDF

Karen Shiebler
2 min readJun 6, 2024

The Keystone Cops of the Middle East

Ismael Abu Dayyah/AP

Well, gosh, I am so very unsurprised that the IDF has experienced yet another “oops” in its ongoing slaughter of every Palestinian they can find.

Remember how the poor clumsy Israeli army accidentally bombed a clearly marked convoy of food relief on its way to desperate Palestinian refugees? Remember how that attack killed seven innocent people attempting to bring food to starving families?

It was obviously just a big boo-boo. Nobody meant to hit those vans with the giant World Central Kitchen logo on their roofs. Israel thought there might be a possible chance of a pro-Hamas civilian riding along. They had no choice other than obliterating three vans full of aide workers.

And sure, the IDF dropped multiple bombs on a tent camp full of desperate Palestinian refugees. They incinerated dozens of people, old and young. But these things happen, right? The Israeli government told us that it was a tragic mistake. So who wants to carry a grudge?

I mean, listen. Nobody ever said the IDF was a modern, up-to-date, fully funded, highly technical army. Who would think that they could pinpoint the location of a terrorist in the middle of a crowd? OK, they managed to kill four Iranian military leaders with a precise, targeted strike in the middle of the major…

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Karen Shiebler

A Mother, a grandmother, a progressive voter. I write because it’s getting harder to march and because words are my weapon. I blog at momshieb.wordpress.com