from SLATE's news summary:>Israel apologized for what it called the mistaken killing of a Palestinian family in Gaza [by passing Israeli tanks] on Wednesday, the papers say. The defense minister ordered an investigation of the incident.<
This reminds me of a (fictional) event which was mentioned in passing in a science fiction novel I once read ("On Wings of Song" by Thomas M. Disch, 1979): Israel put special leg bracelets on all of the Palestinians to hold them prisoner (to prevent them from moving beyond limited areas); there was a computer mistake which activated the bracelets, killing them all. Apologies all around.
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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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