I don't get it.
Hamas fires missiles into Israel.
No one complains.
No one descends on nations' capitols saying, as a woman said for tv cameras in Washington DC the other day that "we are peaceful people; see, we live here (in the US) with no problem."
Israel responds, granted with an intensity that was long overdue, and "Palestinians" - some of who probably can't SPELL "Palestine" let along have been there - along with their bleeding heart supporters mass in the streets complaining that Israel's attacks are unprovoked (never mind the barrage of Hamas missiles that fall every day on Israeli civilians).
Why, they ask, won't Israel stop attacking the poor innocent Hamas terrorists.
Why, they plead, won't The World condemn Israel and force it to quit defending itself.
Why, they know but don't say, won't Israel stop sending the planes so they can restock their arsenal of weapons to send death to Israeli civilians.
But no one asks why Hamas doesn't stop sending rockets into Israel.
No one seems to think it appropriate to tell Hamas to stop its provocations.
No pressure on Hamas.
None.
Zero.
Zip.
Nada.
Why won't Israel act in a humanitarian manner and allow supplies into Hamas' Aza?
It did - and got rockets in return.
For the liberals who believe Israel should be using a kid glove on Hamas and its supporters, I respond: Israel tried the kid glove. It only emboldened Hamas. To an Islamist, a kid glove is a sign of weakness.
Since the kid glove kindness was reciprocated by missiles, Israel struck with a steel fist.
Not, as it probably should have done, when the first Hamas rocket fell on Israel, but after days of attacks.
If Hamas wants Israel to ground its air force and call back the tanks and troops, it must stop shelling Israelis.
Simple.
Israel will - and I will tell you I think foolishly - cease its counter-attacks (which will allow Hamas to import more weapons to indiscriminately kill Israelis, Jews, Arab, and others.
While Hamas is promising to keep up the attacks until Israel withdraws from "Palestinian" land - that means all of Israel - Israel is allowing humanitarian aid into Aza and even accepting wounded from Aza into its hospitals.
Lousy Israelis.
They have the nerve to object to being shelled.
They get upset when a suicide murderer slaughters innocent civilians.
Stupid Israelis - giving aid to people whose primary goal is to kill them.
Idiot Israelis - if they wound you defending themselves, they will give you world-class medical care FOR FREE . . . the stupid Israeli taxpayer will foot the bill.
Those poor folks in Aza: Hamas and its supporters.
If only Israel would just disappear.
But, in the meantime, Hamas sends rockets toward Israeli cities. to fall "wherever." An elementary school is good. Hospitals, too. (Course what's a poor Hamas militiaman - or woman - to do when they need excellent medical care if the hospital is gone.)
I guess I'm missing something.
Hamas attacks Israeli civilians for days on end.
When Israel finally responds, Hamas wants the world to force Israel to stop the retribution.
Think about it.
Israel already "turned the other cheek" time after time.
After 9/11, when the US was attacked by Islamic terrorists, the US government went into attack mode, which is why US troops are in Afghanistan and US agents are hunting al-Qaida across the Indian subcontinent.
From my perspective, what Israel is doing is long overdue.
Looking for something else, I stumbled across the Heretical Librarian blog http://hereticallibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/07/ala-council-and-dina-carter.html and some comments about Dina Carter, a librarian working at the Mount Scopus Campus of Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Hamas murdered her - her "crime?" Was because she was a librarian or because she was an American in Jerusalem or was she simply a human being that Hamas could slaughter. The blog is worth a read, unless of course your point of view is that Ms. Carter was somehow attacking Hamas.
Yohanon
Yohanon.Glenn @ gmail dot com
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