Outcry grows over Israeli soldier smashing Jesus statue in Lebanon

[Prairie Gates]

8. Rarely is public expiation so ironically framed

The IDF has murdered 70,000 human beings in Gaza, men, women, and children, by bomb, by bullet, by blockade and starvation. They've flattened cites, raped their captives, displaced hundreds of thousands, sending people qua e la to avoid the slaughter.

In Lebanon, they've displaced a million, condemning them to tent cities, penury, and starvation. They've destroyed homes and whole villages, annexing the country to the Litani River, smashing infrastructure as they go, and aiming for more. They've bombed a civilian area of Beirut in broad daylight, killing hundreds of undisputed civilians while posting Top Gunesque pictures of their crime for their fans to cheer about.

In the West Bank, they arm and support paramilitary death squads who conduct frequent pogroms, menacing, robbing, beating, torturing, and killing with impunity.

They've started a global war that has spread slaughter and shortages from Shiraz to Manila, from Dublin to Dubai.

And now Benjamin Netanyahu, the Butcher of Gaza, will chide this one soldier for this one act, an expiation of sins via an expiator of sins.