This article ran in December last year, but its content shows the
propaganda against Israel by the liberal press:



Remarkable photo of black smoke rising from the Gaza side of the border.
Egypt is on the right. From Stern.de

Israel is hitting Gaza in response to Hamas rocket attacks, and Arab
activists are protesting all over the globe. I'm not going to echo the
media here, but instead point out that some of Israel's critics are not
telling you the whole story.

Of course, the predictable Daily Kos, Juan Cole, and Richard Silverstein,
and the Huffington Post, to name just a few, are all crying out in support
of Palestinians and against the Israeli "aggressors".

Professor Cole call's Israel's offensive a "war crime". His reasoning:
In 2001-2008, these rockets killed about 15 Israelis and injured 433, and
they have damaged property. In the same period, Gazan mortar attacks on
Israel have killed 8 Israelis.

Since the Second Intifada broke out in 2000, Israelis have killed nearly
5000 Palestinians, nearly a thousand of them minors. Since fall of 2007,
Israel has kept the 1.5 million Gazans under a blockade, interdicting food,
fuel and medical supplies to one degree or another. Wreaking collective
punishment on civilian populations such as hospital patients denied needed
electricity is a crime of war.

....The infliction of this sort of death toll is known in the law of war as
a disproportionate response, and it is a war crime.

The omissions in Cole's article are dishonest. He is comparing apples and
oranges. It's true that relatively few Israelis have actually been killed
by Hamas rockets. But he conveniently forgets that these are not the only
weapons in Hamas' arsenal. They have also used suicide bombings (even with
women and children), IEDs, kidnappings, and assorted guerilla tactics
against the civilians and Israeli Defense Forces. In all, 1,176 Israelis
have been killed and 8,341 wounded in terror attacks since 2000. And this
doesn't even include the Palestinians killed by Hamas, mainly when
cleansing their Fatah rivals from the strip.

Another thing that Cole fails to mention is that Gaza is not only bordered
by Israel. Egypt has it's own blockade, and are even shooting Gazans
attempting to flee the country. This is especially grievous considering
that the Egyptians, unlike the Israelis, aren't under attack by Hamas.

Finally, Cole and the rest always fail to mention one harsh reality. Just
to survive, Israel must force their enemies to suffer many times their own
casualties; they would be overwhelmed otherwise. Israel's population is
just over 7 million. By contrast, the Arab nations surrounding Israel total
in the hundreds of millions (Egypt alone has 81 million people!). You can
also add 66 million Persians in Iran, which is still pursuing a nuclear
program.

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