I have remained largely silent these months for reasons personal, but believe that it is important to speak out if one sees true injustice looming large over the way that Israel is being portrayed as the aggressor. After the terrorist attacks from Hamas, after the vile acts perpetrated on Israelis for the sins of being Israeli Jews became widely known; when the true righteous monster which is the Israeli military prepares its vengeance upon the terrorists: all those voice which loudly proclaimed that they stand with Israel suddenly become muted.
The media world is preparing to show Israel as the monster, when all that Israel has done so far is by means of their air force jets, raining bombs down on places where they ‘think’ Hamas is operating from. But they have not yet sown their deadly cargoes on the myriad places where they absolutely ‘KNOW’ Hamas is operating from, because these places are the purview of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. The ‘World' cries out in horror because Israel plans ‘Revenge’, and they say Israel threatens the Palestinians sheltering in UNRWA schools and hospitals. What they will NEVER admit, is that those same UNRWA schools and hospitals also shelter major numbers of Hamas terrorists, as well as arsenals of rockets and weaponry.
I reckon Israel is justified in whatever she does, as it is Hamas’ responsibility for the use of the schools and hospitals; and it should bear the total blame for whatever form of retribution taken. The fellow-travellers of the BBC verbally attack the Israeli Ambassador because she will not agree that any attack on ‘civilians’ in Gaza are ‘collective punishments’, which is a war crime. What the BBC fails to acknowledge is that the SOLE RESPONSIBILITY for those Palestinians allegedly sheltering in Northern Gaza rests with Hamas; and that Hamas are once more cynically rejecting the facts that apart from those heinous attacks against Israelis, they do and should accept that they are the sole driver of events in Gaza.
Prime Minister Netanyahu must himself take a certain amount of criticism for his orders which withdrew over 2,000 of Israel’s soldiers from defensive positions in the south of Israel adjacent to Gaza, and relocated them under pressure from his right-wing religious Ministers to protect Jewish settlements in the north. The removal didn’t figure in Hamas’ plans for their savage onslaught against Israel, but it may well have helped by the loss of well-armed protection given by those missing Israeli soldiers.
Mine is only one small voice, but there are many like me. Myself?
Nothing radicalises like having your family killed. It's about time Israel's arms and intelligence machine developed an more surgical way of dealing with Hamas; surely they could think of something. It's either a more surgical and directly targeted operation, or a Nuke that reduces everyone to ash. The middle path only prolongs the hate.
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