WaPo blames Israel not Hamas
The NYT, LA Times, Guardian and the BBC are all guilty of the same thing. Ted Belman
To the Editor:The Washington Post
From Judge (retired) Herbert Grossman
From Judge (retired) Herbert Grossman
Re Headline, “Israeli aircraft pound Gaza”
Can you really believe that, after plastering your front page with a maudlin picture of a dead Palestinian baby, three headlines about Israeli offensive actions, and text devoted solely to those actions and Palestinian actions as mere responses to them (“Israeli aircraft pound Gaza” Nov. 15), you have set the record straight by burying on page 14 the facts that the Palestinians began the round of fighting by destroying an Israeli jeep full of soldiers with an anti-tank missile and, after Israel fired back at the attackers, then fired about 130 rockets and mortar rounds at population centers in southern Israel – all of this BEFORE Israel even targeted the Hamas military chief, which your front page suggests began the round of fighting?
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Into The Fray: Aargh!!!
Despite the deadly display of hi-tech pyro-technics by the IDF, the depressing sense of déjà vu conveyed by the events unfolding in Gaza comprise a devastating indictment of Israel’s past and present political leadership.
- Aargh: A word that proclaims sorrow, annoyance, anger, depression, hopelessness– The Urban Dictionary.
Watching the morning newscasts and the spectacle of Israelis scuttling to shelter from incoming projectiles, launched by implacable enemies, from areas voluntarily ceded them by a democratically elected government, which reneged on an election pledge not to do so, it was difficult not to succumb to the urge to yell: Aargh!!! For the sorrow, anger and hopelessness was almost overwhelming.
But worse – much worse – was to come.
As I was writing these very lines, news came in of three Israelis killed by a rocket strike on Kiryat Malachi – in Hebrew, “The City of Angels,” founded in 1951 to replace a tent city housing (Jewish) refugees from Arab countries, and named in honor of the Los Angeles Jewish community, which helped to establish and develop it.
Predictable and predicted
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Israel: Flatten Gaza Once and for All
by Bill Levinson
Niccolo Machiavelli wrote that, if you have to do something nasty and unpleasant, do it all at once. Then you will suffer bad publicity for only one action, no matter how bloody and horrific, than for a series of lesser actions. The so-called international community’s criticism of Israel for limited retaliation for the recent outbreak of terroristic violence is a prime example. Since Israel is going to suffer the bad publicity anyway, it may as well flatten Gaza and end the Hamas problem forever.
It is to be remembered that the Allies had to kill one out of every ten Germans, including civilian as well as military personnel, to end Nazism. This is not to say that Israel should deliberately target civilians, but the laws of war say that civilians who are part of a military target (like a rocket launcher in their back yards) lose their immunity. The same goes for an otherwise protected building, like a mosque or a hospital, that is used for military purposes. That principle dates back to the Lieber Code of the Civil War. (Read more…)
The Legal Forum Acting to Prevent Transfer of Funds to Gaza
The Legal Forum
In the wake of the past week’s constant rocket attacks from Gaza on residents of the south of Israel, Nachi Eyal, Director General of the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, has demanded that Israel stop the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Gaza.
It was announced this week that the Ministry of Finance will provide government guarantees of 3 billion NIS to the Electric Company in order to avoid a financial crisis. Yet according to data released last month, the PA owes the State of Israel 700 million NIS for unpaid electric bills, despite the fact that the State of Israel transfers 400-500 million NIS to the PA every month for customs and VAT duties it collects on their behalf.
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Why is Israel not allowed to defeat her enemies?
By Ted Belman
Many countries condemn Israel’s attacks on Gaza. A few countries including Canada, Britain, Germany and the US support Israel’s right of self defense. With the exception of Canada, the latter go on to recommend restraint with a variety of words.
But no country encourages Israel to devastate Hamas and its rocket arsenal. When they support our right of self defense they imply that should the rockets stop, Israel should stop.
Why is Israel not allowed to defeat her enemies? Especially here where our enemy Hamas is recognized as a terrorist organization. Does anyone demand that the US stop killing al Qaeda terrorists. On what basis does the US have the right to kill terrorist who aren’t targeting the US.
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Ted Belman
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