Now that we have another flareup between Israel and Hamas, I
see that that the “bleeding heart” portion of the press is again cranking up a campaign
to villify Israel. No matter that this whole issue started with Hamas kidnapping
and murdering three Israeli teenagers.
I notice that the Palestinian public wasn’t at all upset about
the murder of the three teenagers; just about the Israeli incursion to search
for their murderers. But when a single Palestinian
teenage was abducted and murdered in revenge, they were really upset.
I notice that Israel is calling the homes they have targeted
15 minutes before they fire at them, allowing family members (and the militants
they are targeting) to leave safely, while Hamas is firing hundreds of rockets indiscriminately
and with no warning, without any worry about civilian casualties.
I wonder again how those in the press now castigating Israel
would react if, say, Mexico fired 100+ rockets a day into the US. Or how they would treat an administration
that “showed restraint” and did nothing to try to stop the bombardment. Remember what we did when some terrorists
took down just three buildings in the US – we took down two whole nations in
response.
Israel has indeed been repressive in Gaza – they have had to
be, since they faced and still face fanatics who are happy to use suicide
bombers to kill civilians. And of course
there are civilian casualties – Hamas puts its rocket launchers deliberately
among civilians to maximize the chances of civilian casualties.
There is no easy resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian
problem, as years of fruitless negotiations have proved. And in fact Israel hasn’t always made the
wisest choices in their attempts to deal with the terrorist threats. But Hamas is a real and continuing threat, as
this current mass of rocket attacks shows, and Israel simply has to do
something to stop them, unpleasant as the results may be.
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