Gobsmackery

[dreamer_easy]

While I may clash a little with Jewish friends and family about the Middle East, I've just been absolutely stunned to read the online remarks of an editor to whose slushpile I had submitted a story, cheering on the indiscriminate killing of civilians in Gaza and calling for their extermination. Whatever disagreements we may have about Israel's policies, media reporting of the situation, etc, I know none of you would ever stoop to advocating the collective punishment of all Palestinians, regardless of their actual innocence or guilt, including children. I've withdrawn the story; I'll give it a rewrite and look for a new home for it. This won't inconvenience the editor in question, who has plenty of stories to choose from; but I don't wish to work with him.

ETA: In fairness to the editor in question, I misread his posting: he calls for the forcible eviction of all Palestinians in Gaza, not their extermination. (In fairness to me, his spluttering responses confirm I made the right decision in choosing not to work with him.)

ETA ETA: Yikes! Sorry about that, folks - I've banned him now.

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[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I don't advocate or condone anyone killing anyone. I don't care about whose history is more full of suffering or whose fault it is. There is one thing we need to learn from history that we never seem to manage; Killing People. Never Good.