Animals, Mr Minister? This kind of language caused Holocaust
Security forces carry an injured person on a stretcher following a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on October 7, 2023. PHOTO | AFP
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant: “We are fighting human animals”. “Human animals” might be referring to the fact that biologically we are all animals, being part of the mammalian subgroup, the warm-blooded quadruped species, as set aside from the reptiles, fishes and birds.
But it would be a waste of time for a busy minister in a war situation to be delivering a lecture on basic biology instead of mobilising soldiers and collecting materiel to send to Gaza to pulverise that hapless enclave, which has known no peace over a decade and half of the Israeli blockade.
