Israel Needs Friends

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The good news of the propaganda war between Israel and Hamas is that the Czech President of the EU has gone on record, as reported at Haaretz.com, saying that the ground war Israel is launching in Gaza is defensive--not offensive.  Contrast this statement with the recent reporting of the Gaza invasion by Christiane Amanpour referenced in Commentary Magazine.  Ms. Amanpour stated in her report that in the past year only two Israelis were killed by Hamas rocket fire--insinuating that Israel is overreacting to something that is basically harmless.  Now wait a minute--she left out a few facts mentioned in the above linked article:

"Hamas' attacks in 2008 more than doubled -- to 3,278 -- from the 2007 number. And this figures in the six-month "lull" period, during which "only" around 100 rockets were fired. She also did not mention that the range and deadliness of Hamas' rockets increased as well, putting around 15 percent of the Israeli population under Hamas' missile umbrella. (The "disproportionality" fetishists also never get around to noting that Israel has conducted less than a thousand air strikes in response to over 7,000 Hamas rocket attacks since 2005.)"

Just for the record eight Israelis were killed by Hamas in 2008.  Somehow I think that if Mexico or Canada were lobbing rockets into the US at the rate Hamas has been lobbing them into Israel, we might respond the way Israel has responded (only sooner and stronger)!

The new President of the EU understands freedom and he understands tyranny.  Unless the world begins to understand the difference between the two, we will find ourselves living under the latter. 

 

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