25 Jun 09 18:19, Mimi Gallandt wrote to All:

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

Proof positive that the Israeli' are practicing Nazi tactics on their own
citizens.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 MG> more at:
 MG> http://tinyurl.com/loeytd

 MG> --
 MG> L'Chaim,
 MG> Mimi

 MG> mgallandt670{at}gmail.com

 MG> http://www.myspace.com/fcpnmimi

 MG> "Arbeit macht frei" is the most villainous lie of all time.

 MG> "Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dŒtes mais je me battrai
 MG> jusqu'au bout pour que vous puissiez le dire" - Voltaire

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