The Israeli government’s near-total blockade of the Gaza Strip has been roundly criticized by international human rights groups as a harsh form of collective punishment. Some U.N. investigations have labeled it much worse–that Israel’s actions amount to crimes against humanity.
Back in medialand, the Washington Post‘s Howard Schneider has a story today (12/15/09) comparing life in Gaza with the West Bank. While the latter is still under Israeli occupation, its economy is (predictably enough) much stronger, and its standard of living relatively higher. This is a somewhat familiar theme in the press–noting that while Hamas’ rule in Gaza is a disaster,the West Bank’s more moderate political leadership is getting results. (Tom Friedman wrote two columns about this in August.)
The Post‘s examination offers only glancing mentions of the Israeli blockade. The piece employs unusually soft language in the fifth paragraph in describing “Israeli policies that restrict travel into and out of the Gaza Strip and limit its economic growth in a bid to undercut support for the area’s ruling Islamist Hamas movement.” Near the end of the article, we read that “Israel’s rules have choked off the economy in Gaza, increasing poverty and despair among its 1.5 million people.” Somewhat better, but buried.
If one is going to compare Gaza to the West Bank–or to anywhere else, for that matter–one would have to point out the punishing effects of this blockade. And if one were to do that, you might want to come up with a word other than “rules” to describe what some see as potential crimes.
Not to mention the complete complicity in this act of genocide by the U.S., U.K., Egypt, etc.
They’re not potential crimes, they’re actual crimes.
It is tempting to ask if Peter Hart or anyone else from the WP has been in Gaza; or if they just live in a fuzzy fantasy land where starving is a common ocurance…but not a crime.
Hey Don, I don’t believe Peter Hart is “from the WP.” He’s from FAIR, yes? That stands for Fairness and ACCURACY in Reporting.
Blame Israel for not wiping out a group of people whose soul reason for existence seems to be to murder them all. I will never understand how the “left”, which I connect with Liberalism, and fairness, has staked everything on blaming the Israelis for just trying to exist and survive.
I always thought that Liberal/Left was for defending human rights, standing up for the underdog, fairness, etc. I don’t see how gullible one has to be to allow ones belief to be fractured and perverted by disinformation and propaganda.
Would there be any problem if the Hamas or Hezbollah were not dedicated to murder, terrorism and destroying Israel at all costs?
How stupid Liberals have to be to be sidetracked by some pictures that show Palestinians in distressing situations that were brought about by the sickness and toxicity of the wider Islamic radicalism movement. This is war, and what else should Israel do?
So this is a way clever right wingers have split and fractured the Left over this issue and appealed to the ignorance and prejudiced of the Liberals to make them look stupid. If you actually cared about Palestinians one might demand their government to make peace and get along with Israel instead of murdering their people, and firing rockets into their lands.
Most Americans are oblivious to the way Israel controls our Congress and Senate thru its AIPAC lobby. I have seen repeated evidence of how AIPAC Zionists have tried to stifle free expression on the University of Oregon campus, where I am a retired faculty member. This happens nationwide, and I urge you to to explore the question, then write about it. You are welcome to contact me: 541-344-0282 George Beres
Approximately 1,400 people — including lots of Jews from America — are hoping to pass through Gaza’s Rafah Gate on Dec. 30. Then they will walk the length of the Gaza Strip. I would tend to believe anything that those people have to say about Gaza after they visit the place. Until then, I’m tired of people referring to the Palestinians as being “terrorists.”
Bruce of Aipac sez…!!!
(…and in addition, those damn Palestinians have for six decades continue to “have” their lands and homes, crops and posessions taken, destroyed, themselves and their children starved, beaten, tortured, slaughtered etc-etc, all just to piss off the poor, put-upon Zionists.)
How bloody incredible.
~John L.
George, Israel is aboveboard in its dealings. Why do you suppose that the Saudi’s have had the US classify the amount of their ownership in the US. Yes, it is a classified state secret how much money the Saudis have invested in the United States – ie. how much of our country they own.
Bill, the Palestinians eleected a govenrment that has as one of its stated goals the destruction of the state of israel … what other civilized country on the planet has that, and then expects to be treated with impunity.
What the hell is wrong with you people?
Bruce — Yes, Israel is above-board. It bombed Gaza with white phosphorus in front of the world and everybody. It makes no bones about the fact it wants to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its Arab population.
So, yes, I guess you are right, in your way.
Linda J … ethnically cleanse huh? There would have been no need for Israel if the Muslims would let minorities have equal rights in lands that stretch across the world from Morocco to Indonesia where the oppress all their minorities but their own people as well. Using white phosphorus is wrong, but the whole affair would not have happened had Palestinian terrorists not been kidnapping Israeli soldiers, and firing rockets into Israel.
It’s not war, it’s not wrong, it nothing when Palestinians or Islamic radicals do it, but the minute Israel makes a mistake, or does something mean, they pay the price of the double standard. Like in the UN, with all those Islamic countries that always vote to condemn Israel, but never say a word about Palestinians.
What kind of a state will Palestine be? What kind of a country and society are you defending. During Israel’s action in Gaza the Palestinians were shooting each other in the knees to make sure whatever political group they belonged to did not lost any power. Palestinians are still just cruelly holding on to that Israeli soldier for over a year now when they have had offers from Israel to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
You bet I am right, in my way, in the sane way. Israelis are human beings and for a massive culture of Islam to maintain emnity. hostility, war and terror against them for existing in a tiny piece of land is what does not make any sense if you are human being.
> John L. Opperman Says:
> Bruce of Aipac sezâ┚¬Ã‚¦!!!
See, why can’t you supporters of Palestinian terrorism see the silliness you engage in. You know nothing about me but somehow you imagine that anyone who supports Israel is some kind of Jewish agent. Your world views are so contradictory it is just laughable. And the mental contortions of illogic that you have to go through to only see one side of this issue, to ignore the reality of it is nothing short of Ahmadinejadesque.
I am not Jewish. I do not live in Israel, I have never been to Israel. I don’t know that many Jews, and have nothing for or against them, I know some Muslims too and have nothing for or against them. I happen to follow the news, have read some history, and have a brain that I used and a notion of right and wrong.
And by the way John, honestly answer the question of what you think the Palestinians would have done if the military power had been set the other way? Do you think there would be anything left of Israel if the Palestinians have the power to make it so?
By the way, do you know what life was like for Jews in the so-called Holy Land, pre-Israel, pre-WWII. Do you think the co-called Palestinians were any better to the Jews than they are now? Probably a bit. Read some of Walid Shoebat’s biography about his grandfather engaging in pograms against Jewish villages whenever the local Arabs thought they were getting to rich or powerful. You and the lot here are very ignorant, but that does not stop your phoney self-righteous hate.
Ben Gurion”s words when asked “…what about the Polish Jews?…” were : “…all the Jews in Poland are not worth one cow in Palestine.”
The Jews and Palestinians who were living in Palestine for centuries were coexisting as friends, neighbors, countrymen. It was not until the massive influx of “settlers” after 1948 that the mayhem against Palestinians took place. But even as Jews were being persecuted in Europe, Zionists had had their eye on the Holy Land, and they even called off a worldwide boycott of the Nazis in order to persist in its theft for the sake of having a religious “homeland”..
But this invasion was distorted and the atrocities went unreported. The Arabs were portrayed as “bad guys”, the Jews as perpetual victims, somehow justified in doing whatever their virtuous mobs “had to” do, to “make the desert bloom”, by stealing the land and water from Palestinians, crushing their homes and driving them away or just murdering them.
Ignorant Americans who have consumed the slanted news reports, who fancy themselves tolerant by embracing Jews and the cause of Israel and its “right to exist”, will parrot the lines about “Palestinian terrorism”, and the billionaire media moguls will keep the false flags flapping because these wars make money for the ghouls who wage them, and how nice to wage war against unarmed civilians who are defenseless! “Victory” is certain, and the war crimes can be hidden by not allowing anyone in to see the destruction, just keep your fleet of morons lisping the little mendacious mantras about Hamas’ “rockets”, and Israeli “self defense”.
Bruce suggest you move to Gaza and bring some of the children and call us when Israel blows them up.
Jeannette, I am no expert at any of this, but I have read a lot on it, and followed it for a long time. Look at how Muslims interact with non-Muslims in all the countries they “own” and then try again and tell me that Muslims coexisted with Jews fine in the past.
That is the kind of contradictory absurd statement that can always be traced back to show a gap between reality and the people who blame Israel alone for this problem, or the magnitude of their reaction to it.
Yes, there are places where Muslims or some minority of them get along with others. In the US I have never met a radical Muslim, but I move in a professional work environment. In India most Muslims seek to be Indians first, it is mostly in the Muslims countries, or the secrecy of the Mosque that these radical intolerant ideas take hold,and there are over 100 countries where this secrecy and intolerance is the rule.
You can find news stories about people in those countries who are criminally persecuted for even suggesting that Islam should recognize Israel or be more tolerant. The idea that because there may be Jews in Iran that they are peacefully coexisting is another absurdity.
jim, your comment too foolish to even waste time with.
Again, how this ignorant anti-Semitism, and pro-Islamic totalitarianism became associated with the Left, with the Liberal cause, in some kind of twisted way to brand bleeding-heart as concern for an oppressed, group of Muslims who do not even have freedom in their own countries under their own governments is beyond me.
It just shows the success of the manipulative media’s relentless attack on the left and civil/social ideas to break the coherence of the arguments against the status quo in the West. Both of these absurdities benefits the elite in both societies and leave the people living under each system confused and oppressed.
> Bruce says:
> Using white phosphorus is wrong, but the whole affair would not have happened had Palestinian terrorists not been kidnapping Israeli soldiers, and firing rockets into Israel.
Palestinian terrorism would never have happened had the Israeli not taken the Palestinian land, homes crops and had not been killing and kidnapping Palestinian soldiers and civilians…………
The flaw in this reasoning is that there is always an event you can relate to as being the cause…… and an event that lead to that one….. and so on and so on. This is getting you nowhere and it’s only used as a flawed justification for the next harsch action.
Eric, you are just plain ignorant about Palestinian terrorism. Do you think Islamic culture was any different in the last hundred years than it is now?
Are you aware of Haj Amin Al-Hussayni who allied the Palestinians with Hitler?
Are you aware of how Iran got its name in 1935? At the height of Nazism the first Shah of Iran changed the country of Persia to be called Iran, meaning Aryan, to emphasize his solidarity with Hitler.
There has been bad blood between the Muslims and the Jews as long as there has been Muslims, because they Jews have been around there a lot longer.
The fundamental fact is that Islam does not coexist with ANY other religion or culture, it is the basis of its very existence, jihad. Whether it is the Jews, the Christians, the Sikhs, the Bahai, or even other Muslims.
This is the fact, that among others led the need to establish the state of Israel, at least how I have read history, and how I see how it moved from the past continuously to what we have today.
Justifying harsh action should not be even mentioned, this is war, and the war, violence, intolerance, oppression, hate and terrorism comes from one side.
Looking at it objectively, if there are two peoples who cannot live together and who come from the same land, why wouldn’t you divide the land in some way, say according to representation of population? Looked at that way, the Kurds ought to get a big chunk If Iraq, and the Jews ought to get a bigger chunk than Israel of the Middle Eastern area.
Why do you think the Islamic states are so dead set against Kurds getting their own lands? It would lead to a precedent that would turn their religion/culture over. What other religion actually “owns” their countries? In Saudi Arabia a non-Muslims cannot even enter the country without special dispensation from Allah, mediated by the same politican, er clerics that manage all these countires, and it is not like there is religious precedent for any of it, all the interpretations of Islam are different and at odds, but they are all held together by their low tech violent totalitarian social norms, and their hatred of outside ways.
You are probably right that my knowledge about these issues is a bit limited. But I know enough to see that a lot of information is pulled out of its context and abused to justify actions on both sides. One thing I know for sure; the story isn’t as black and white as the media is trying to make me believe.
Dividing the land if groups of people cannot live together might be a good solution. I do have a problem if the one with the biggest guns gets to decide how it is splitted.
Don’t get me wrong, I do not agree with the fact that Palestinians are using terrorism against Israel. I only think that their justification of terrorism is not very different to the way Israel justifies their own harsh actions. There is no justification for both in my opinion. As long as our justification is based on historical or religious rights (which are probably both flawed by time and interpretation) we are getting stuck in an endless downward spiral that is getting us nowhere.
There is not one single person who has posted on this or any similar site who would agree to live under the degrading and utterly dehumanizing realities of an illegal and immoral occupation. Isreal is wrong just as white southerners were (and to some extent, still are) wrong. It’s brutal and unquestionably racists policies are as odious as were those of the delusional white South African government in the apartheid era. The Washington Post’s dismal coverage is consistent with the pathetic offerings by other mainstream media sources in the United States.
A misty veil of misinformation, omission and outright lies substitutes as credible reporting where Isreal and it’s documented war crimes are concerned. Reporters are dissembling and US politicians are either gagged or blindly swearing allegiance to a foreign government guilty of flouting international law
and human decency since it’s very inception. The American citizenry is left to the machinations of ignorant charlatans posing as the spokesmen of God. I offer no ready made solutions but I do know that no lie lives forever- and that four story walls, home demolitions and the theft of other people’s land will not bring peace to Isreal.
As Americans we deserve, but will not receive honest , well-researched and contextualized coverage of Palestinian life. Thank God for the internet.
Nat:
“As Americans we deserve, but will not receive honest , well-researched and contextualized coverage of Palestinian life.” OK , here you go..
For over 60 years the Palestinians and their , so-called, Arab brothers, have been threatening to ..”driving the Jews into the sea”! More so, for over 60 years the Palestinians and the Arab nations have failed at evry campaign of terrorism and conventional warfare! For over 60 years, the Palestinians, supported by their Arab brothers, have been defeated , militarily, by those pesky Jews! For over 60 years, evry time the Arabs have been defeated by Israel’s military, the Palestinians have declared their victimhood at the hands of the “brutal” IDF. This is the factual narrative.
Please keep in mind; the term Palestina was originated by the Romans after defeating the Jews in 70 AD as a measure of eliminating the Jewish link to the land, Arafat founded PLO, sought to “liberate” Palestine in ’64, prior to Israel taking over the West Bank and Gaza in a defensive war, Israel returned the Saini to Egypt as result of Camp David peace accord, Israel unilaterally departed Gaza and left it’s hortculture infrstructure (paid by American Jews) so that the Palestinians would have a head-start on a domestic economy. The pay-back was the establishment of HAMAStan with a Charter and reason-for-being as the killing of Jews and Destruction of Israel ( see link:http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm).
Nothing has changed for the Palestinian narrative in 60 years. When they want their own state more than they want to destroy the Jewish one peace may prevail. Until then, the FACT remains that whenever the Arabs attack Israel, there will be violent retribution, followed by Arab pleading for the sake of their self-inflicted victimhood!
Dear Bruce:
The Israeli military is the 4th largest in the world. They get about $3 billion a year from the U.S., plus “technology sharing”. They are a nuclear power that refuses to admit they are a nuclear power, while carrying on a hysterical campaign about Iran potentially having nuclear weapons.
Some Israeli Jews have the highest standard of living in the Middle East. (Israeli Palestinians, Ethopian Jews, and Bedouins are 2nd & 3rd class citizens.) They enjoy swimming pools, while Gazans must rely on water being trucked in.
The “poor Israel” refrain of Israel being the victim has worn out. Most of the world sees Israel as a victim of its own policies. They could have peace tomorrow, if they vacated the Occupied Territories, and let the Palestinians live.
The notion that Muslims are unable to tolerate people of other religions, whether correct or not, is pretty irrelevant to the left’s disagreement with Israel. The problem is that Israel is an ally of the US and a recipient of lots of money and support. We don’t want our money and reputation to be used for such things as collective punishment. The reality is that both sides in the middle east have problems and anyone who thinks the whole thing is caused by one side is very short-sighted. One reason the left focuses on Israel and not the Palestinians is because we’re paying Israel to do these things, and that is a serious problem.
Now, it also turns out that the Palestinians have a strong case for their defense, and they are the oppressed and down-trodden in this situation (just look at who holds the power if you want to disagree with me here). Also, there is no real existential threat to Israel, despite some of the more radical language used by some groups at their founding. There has been pretty widespread consensus recently from the Arab side that a return to pre-1967 borders would be sufficient, and I think that would be entirely reasonable.
Going backwards …
Roy, you said this:
> there is no real existential threat to Israel, despite
To me this impeaches and undermines your whole point of view, or your knowledge of anything to do with history in the last 60 years to say that. It is like what happened in the Holocaust, or like saying that shooting rockets into a country is not serious, or ignoring that the very Constitution, the charter of the Palestinians groups call for the destruction of Israel. Yet you know better, enough to go online and tell everyone there is not real threat to Israel.
Then you go on to speak for all on the left saying “we” don’t want money to go for collective punishment, in fact skewing the argument that “collective punishment” is what Israel is engaged in and not any any different modes of actions to secure their survival and freedom. And you further skew the argument saying we are paying Israel to do these things. You are just full of explosive pointless statements.
Edwina:
I don’t care what the size of the Israeli military is? Whatever size it is in a state of being continously attacked just for existing as state is justified by the history of its neighbors. Perhaps you would like to apply your standards to why Iran needs nuclear weapons?
Looking at the number of Muslim states and their history of voting together in ways that push Islamic terrorism and cohesiveness, making a mockery of the United Nations by constantly condemning Israel for participating in a war they did not start and not once allowing evenhandedness of justice to occur in this highest international body. Turning the UN into a dysfunctional joke, or worse in the case of the statutue they want to ram down the throats of everyone in the world to respect their religion. I am glad that we support Israel, and other Western states. It’s one of the few things we get right. And it stlll does not make us responsible for the actions of Israel.
I am not sure what the point you are trying to make about Israel enjoying a high standard of living. Most enlightened societies that support education, freedom, tolerance and hard work do. Where do you think Israel would be if they spent all their time trying to teach their young children to be suicide bombers?
Eric – I agree.
Nat the Turner, maybe, maybe not, but that is not the point, ie. how many people would live under the so-called occupation. Why is that occupation necessary? You want to complain about this one sidedly, but let me also turn this around for you. Many Palestinians live in Israel. Those Israelis who live in Palestine, or what would be Palestine would not even be there if they were not in Jewish settlements. I don’t think the Jewish settlements are helping anything, but they do illustrate the point that Israel’s critics like you do not even address, maybe you do not even see it … Palestinians are ethnically cleansing Palestine. It is unacceptable for Jews to live in Palestine, and they are subject to violence if they do. Maybe if the settlements were weaker and many of the Jews who live there were murdered you might be able to look objectively at this and see the other side, but I imagine, probably not.
Asking the Israelis to take that chance because of dishonest disingenuous arguments like yours is absurd.
Finally, Eric Poll, you said:
… But I know enough to see that a lot of information is pulled out of its context and abused to justify actions on both sides.
Maybe, but you do not seem to know how to handle information that you do not know how to back up, rank, or integrate with other information. You claim that the ones with the biggest guns are getting to decide how land is divided which is another total fiction. For example, without defense, without those guns, they would even exist. if they did exist it would be as a persecuted minority. Study about about how the Bahai people in Iran are being treated right now.
The Palestinians talk about how unfair it was that they had to leave their homes, yet millions of Jews were kicked out of Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Syria and many other countries and forced to go llive in Israel, their homes and property confiscated. That is never talked about for some reason. And it was before, during after Israel came into existence. How is it that somehow you only got fed one side of the story so much that you are willing to go out of your way to post opinions based on that fiction, that you did not question or test? How is that fair? What kind of Liberalism is that? What kind of human rights is that.
On this issue Liberals make me sick. In fact the sentiment of anti-Israel, anti-Semitism so smacks of envy and jealousy of some prejudiced of wealth that if fits neatly, albeit unattractively in the trailer trash element of the left, just as the blind support of the Right against their own best interest from the trailer trash right. The irony is that both factions of these parties are being used, but not as dastardly as the Palestinians are being used as a proxy army to fight Israel by corrupt govenrments who give their people nothing.
One thing I particularly hate is common with my American countrymen, that is, we tend to want to lump too sides of everything we do not know about as equal. The MIddle East situation suffers from this. This is not about two spoiled children fighting constantly since way back, this is about a particular hot spot on the cutting edge of what is being billed as Islamic culture by the phony clerics all over the world to justify their intolerance, abuse and totalitarian societies and their rights to perpetuate it, and extend it, and demand that the rest of world respect it, but selling it a great word religion.
It has flared up as war in over Israel, but it is smoldering all over the Muslim world, and has been taken as a fact of life for so long those like you who just take a cursory glance before making a bad judgement miss the point of this and mistake it for a Liberal issue.
Of course if you do check your history then you will find that anti-Semitism is largely a Christian invention. Christians were persecuting, torturing and murdering Jews, and other non-Christians (as well as different flavours of Christians), long before Islam even existed. This did not really stop, to some extent, until after Hitler had tried and failed to “complete Gods plan” (and he certainly didn’t mean Allah when he said this) by killing all the Jews he could get his hands on. Some argue that Hitler wasn’t a “true Christian” but his attitude, just like the current majority attitude in the Western world, clearly was and is the product of almost 2 millennia of Christian indoctrination, “culture” and “civilisation”. He only had to look at the Bible that he was “educated” with for most of his ideas (chosen people, justification and glorification of mandatory genocide, etc). No need to link him with Muslims that were simply following the Christian example.
Of course in all fairness one should admit that Christians (whether by religion or only by culture) never had a monopoly on extreme intolerance. As they inherited these ideas from the Jews and passed them on to the Muslims all three religions have always had roots of intolerance that are strong enough to justify everything up to and including genocide. But, contrary to traditional Western propaganda, Christians have usually been the more intolerant, aggressive and genocidal of the three. In fact, this has actually been the secret to their success in dominating the world so far.
But the Palestinians (or anybody else) should not have been made the victims of the partial back-flip in anti-Semitism of the Western world caused by the events of WWII. The Jews were given a country that was not theirs: even according to the Old Testament the Jews grabbed it, very long ago, through invasion and genocide. But apparently the winners of WWII felt they had to distinguish themselves from the losers (and their anti-Semitic heritage) and they did so by allowing the Jewish victims to create their own little holocaust at the expense of people that weren’t really worth considering. The term “anti-Semitism” itself is a good indicator of this attitude: although the term literally refers to “Semitic people” in general, i.e. including Arabs, it is only applied to hatred against Jews. Apparently the other Semitic people were already considered inferior and “ignorable” compared to the Jews when this term was first invented and when the Jews themselves were still the victims of large-scale Christian persecution.
Notice that by comparison Native Americans have a much stronger (e.g. much more recent) claim to “their” continent than the claim that the Jews have to “their” country, but it does not look like anything is ever going to be done to rectify that. The main reason for this is of course that America did a “better” cleansing job than Hitler. This apparently justifies the fact that Native Americans are still being treated as “unter Menschen” and don’t have to be given back their homeland.
So if this is really about winning or losing, rather right and wrong, it is no wonder some countries are eager to get nuclear weapons. Only a total hypocrite (or somebody totally ignorant) would claim that they have no defensive reasons to do so.
I often wonder what would have happened if the British and the UN had done somewhat more of “the right thing” and given the Jews a patch of land that was actually theirs to give, e.g. South East England. And if the international community would have allowed them to do with the originals inhabitants as they have done with the Palestinians. I wonder how big the “Cockney terrorist threat” would currently be…
Brucek, it doesn’t matter what your reasons are for collective punishment. No matter how real your threat might be, you simply can’t (morally) punish everyone for the sins of a few. Are you making the argument that this hasn’t happened in Gaza? And it doesn’t matter how many horrible things the Palestinians do – it still doesn’t justify crimes against innocents. This is in its essence an entirely liberal idea.
And yes, shooting unguided rockets across the border is much less serious than targeted demolition of homes, blockades, rationing of essential supplies, expulsion of an entire population, etc. You’d make a good point to bring up the suicide attacks, but the rockets, in comparison, are less important and don’t even come close to posing an existential threat.
Sure we’re not paying them to do these things, but we certainly are paying them, and they certainly are doing these things. Doesn’t that call for a bit more scrutiny of their actions?
Brucek, the discussion was about palestinians and israeli, not about Iran, Iraq, Egypt or Syria. The fact of bad things happening there has nothing to do with it.
And if you don’t see that Israel is the one with the biggest guns and uses these guns in the decision on how the land is divided, I guess a discussion is a waste of time.
Eric Pol … and your point would be moot if the wrong people had the biggest guns.
Roy Harper, I am not arguing that collective punishment is right. There is no other way, if you can think of one I’m sure everyone in the world would love to hear it. If innocents could be separated out. Arguing the points at some far removed abstract level is pointless, and only works for people not involved who do not care and who just want to sound like know it alls.
Finally, I always just crack up that because these rockets have not killed more people and done more damage than they have that they are not a threat or should be ignored. To focus on trying to control the Israel’s is the wrong move here. They are facing the attacks from a huge force against them, and ultimate a huge force that will be against every group that radical Islam is against.
Quibbling about everything but the reality of the situation is a disingenuous approach that in this case supports terrorism and violence. It is like always complaining about Police brutality to the point of calling for an end of the police. Humans make human decisions they do the best they can. All once can do is try to discern the reality behind the two sides, or if someone had to the power to end it. Sadly no one does or will take action, so this war goes on … and it is instigated from just one side – the bottom line.
Sorry Bruce, but I am Jewish and so are you. It is hard to hide a fractured sentence structure like yours