Why Israel has to fight (2) – Hamas
Israel is fighting this sad war for two reasons; to protect its society and to recreate a platform for peace destroyed by Hamas.
Internally, Hamas has violated the basic human rights of large parts of the Gazan community. There is overwhelming video evidence, showing its continuous cruelty to Palestinian opponents. The small Christian community in Gaza suffers from consistent harassment. Hilary Clinton and David Miliband, the latter no close friend of Israel, have censured Hamas for its use of children and women as human shields. Even the UN has long failed to confirm that the supplies delivered near daily via Israel are not hoarded by local power brokers.
The cartoonist Steve Breen recently asked, what does Hamas stand for? “Hiding in Mosques and Schools” is the satiric but sad and accurate answer.
Re Israel, the Hamas position is simple. Its charter from 1988 rejects Israel with violent and anti-semitic rhetoric. When Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, she left behind a thriving greenhouse industry, now the end point of many Hamas-controlled smuggling tunnels. After 930 days, Hamas continues to hold POW, Gilad Shalit, without one visit from the Red Cross. In 8 years, Hamas and its lackeys have sent nearly 9,000 rockets and mortars into Israeli population centres.
Most of these rockets have been launched since Hamas captured political control of the territory. In the 3 weeks of fighting, over 700 have landed in Israel, a ratio of 1 for 1.5 Palestinians killed in the fighting. (No small proportional revenge there from Hamas). None of the rockets have been targeted at the Israeli troops encamped in the area, but only at civilians.
Israel has 3 options to deal with this vile threat.
a) Do nothing and hope or wait for a ceasefire. That has been done for 8 years. Hamas itself ripped up the summer 2008 truce.
b) Wait for international intervention. The EU border observers left their positions over 2 years ago. Egypt has failed miserably to prevent massive weapon smuggling. Only now do we hear of France, the UK and others trying to work out how to stop the smuggling.
c) Take significant action to stop the violence and thus help get the moderate Palestinians back to the peace talks. That will not be easy nor pretty, but it offers a longer term message of hope for all communities.
If ever the phrase “fighting for peace” had a place, it is in Gaza, January 2009.
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good on ya!
now if only the pinheads would read it and actually understand the points you make here
I received this comment:
“Israel killing the children and the people in Gaza and the world is silent. Let’s fxxx Israel”
Here’s the irony. The correspondent, who assumedly hates Israel like Hamas does, has admitted to the very dilemmas I have mentioned.
He is instrinsically saying that the world was silent while the Kassams rained down in the past.
And as Israel does not target innocents, he is admitting that many of those poor children, who have died, lost their lives in the vacinity of Hamas positions. As I wrote, an abuse of the innocence of youth.
Let us pray for the safety of Palestinian civilians who held hostages by Hamas and the safety of Israeli soldiers. May this campaign end swiftly and may Hamas be annihilated. May moderate Muslims emerge victorious in the struggle for Gaza!
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2009/01/israel-invades-gaza-in-attempt-to.html
HAMAS is that retarded child walking around the zoo with a sharp stick, no matter how many times they are told don’t poke the bear they poke it, sooner or later the bear is going to womp the crap out of the dumb ass kid. and who is to blame? the bear or the parent for not taking the stick away from the kid? the people who voted in the retrad? or the ones that sold him the stick and taught him how to use it? I could go on and on but there are better things to do tonight in Israel like see how long it takes the retard to break the truce this time;
Bravo for the State of Israel and it’s efforts to stop Hamas.Hamas is a boil of hatred on the flesh of the Middle East.They have no soul or heart for anyone, even their own people.Hamas is a bully and it is time that Israel stood up and put a stop to the constant barrage of missiles in Israel that have terrorized Sderot and other quiet villages that have live in fear and terror.It is so easy to ostracize the Jews for fighting back.we are expected to take it lying down. No more! Gaza was thriving when Israel pulled out.Now it is desolated and in ruins. It is is what it is.Hamas got what it deserved and rightfully so.