Why Israel is correct
11:27am Tuesday 6th January 2009
Comments (7)I SHALL not be joining Ken Livingstone, Tony Benn, Bianca Jagger and Annie Lennox in their protests about Israel’s incursion into Gaza.
Israel is acting in self-defence after years of severe provocation. How would America react if it were bombarded daily with rockets lobbed across from Cuba?
How would we react if terrorists established themselves in Scotland and rained down missiles on Darlington and Durham?
Israel issued countless warnings that it would retaliate if the Hamas bombardment continued. Every day for a long time terrorised Israeli children have had to take their school lessons in bomb shelters. Life in the small towns such as Sderot near the border with Gaza, had become intolerable.
Something had to be done. No responsible government could allow its civilian population to be terrorised in this way.
Senior members of Arab governments have repeatedly warned Hamas of the consequences of their bombing Israeli villages. On December 27, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit harshly censured Hamas, placing responsibility on them for the current war. At a noon press conference broadcast on Egyptian television, he said that Egypt had repeatedly cautioned Hamas against continuing to fire rockets into Israel and added that therefore Hamas should assume responsibility for the Israeli retaliation and not blame others.
The recent history of this conflict shows clearly that Hamas is merely another one of those middle eastern terrorist, jihadist organisations that have vowed many times to wipe Israel off the map. They receive financial and military support from Israel’s enemies, Syria and Iran.
Israel has tried to establish peaceful co-existence with Hamas. In 2005 Israelis withdrew completely from Gaza. This was not enough to satisfy Hamas who immediately started their campaign of bombing.
Eventually there was a ceasefire. But Hamas broke this ceasefire and started launching its rockets again before Christmas.
The longer history of this conflict supports the view that Arab extremists and Islamic jihadists are responsible for the ongoing violence in the area. Time and again western nations have brokered a truce – most famously in the Camp David agreement which was drafted while Bill Clinton was still president.
On that occasion Arafat returned to the Palestinian territories and there was a lively hope that he would ratify the accord.
Instead he started the intifada – the terrorist uprising against Israel.
The Camp David agreement would have been momentous, paving the way for a two states solution: Israel and the Palestinians living side by side in peace.
We should be in no doubt that it was the Palestinian extremists who scuppered the accord.
They did not and do not want peaceful co-existence: they want only the destruction of Israel.
They have expressed this wish many times.
Why should we not believe them?
The reaction of most western politicians and almost all the European mass media is to blame Israel for the suffering which is now undoubtedly taking place. I find this reaction astonishing and repulsive.
Why are western governments and newspapers taking the side of the terrorists? Israel has made it plain that if the bombardment by Hamas rockets ceases, then Israel will end its incursion.
Blaming Israel and exonerating the terrorist regime Hamas is to call fair foul and foul fair.
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Yemen, darlington says...
3:20pm Tue 6 Jan 09
They are acting like petualant children both a law unto themselves. Isreal gets away with far too much mainly due to worldwide holocaust guilt, no other country on this planet is allowed to expand its borders without fear of reprisal. true hamas have also acted with appaling cruelty and barbarity but when backed into a corer you would fight like that too.
Abu Haadiya, Dewsbury says...
6:31pm Tue 6 Jan 09
What if these isles were invaded by a foreign power with superior military might. What if the occupying forces then terrorised and bombed the indiginous Britons until they were practically penned into massive refugee camps, practically open air prisons; one of which was situated on the scottish border. What if the orginal residents of Darlington/Durham were ethnically cleansed from their homes and forced into this prison.
What if they patiently waited for one whole generation expecting the world to redress the injustice done to them. What if the next generation tired of living under occupation and constant fear of death from M16s, Apaches etc. knowing that an indifferent world will not aid them, they decide to resist the occupation using only the primitive weaponary available to them. They are labelled as terrorists by the Occupiers, who then embark on the most vicious reppression of the indiginous Britons that is imaginable. The Occupation army then lays seige on them and deprives them of even Medicine and food. They frequently kill the British under the guise of 'fighting terrorism'. Gangs of young Britons form militias to attack the occuping army, but due to the embargo, must rely on hand held guns, and primitive rockets.The rockets are so primitive that they manage to kill some 15 people in 8 years. The british say they are ready to stop even these attacks, only if the embargo is lifted on their people. They are constantly rebuffed, and their overtures met with bombs and bullets. The Occupying army then cynically uses these rockets as a pretext to unleash it's full military might on the largely defencless Britons packed into the camp near the Scottish border.
Would your sympathies be with the Occupiers who stole the land around Darlington/Durham? Or would you sympathise with the original residents of darlington/Durham who were forced out of their homes and are now refugees whilst people sharing the same religion as the Occupiers, could come from around the world to steal their homes and land.
The analogy given above demonstrates what the Palestinians have suffered. The people firing rockets from Gaza into Ashkelon etc, had previously resided in these places for thousands of years until 1948 and 1967, when the Israelis drove them out using terror.
My plea to all readers is to objectively find out the history of Palestine from 1900 onwards, and not rely on Corporate media to teach you history.
Colin.Hargreaves, Manchester says...
9:56pm Tue 6 Jan 09
Colonel Bean, Richmond, North Yorkshire says...
11:09pm Tue 6 Jan 09
After both Israeli conflicts the Middle East forcibly removed their Jewish populations and forced them into Israel, effectively mimicking the appalling actions of the Israelis and leaving a conundrum.
Will the Middle Eastern countries allow the Jewish refugees they created to return to their homes in order for the Arabs to return to their homes in Gaza?
Joie de Vivre, Manchester says...
5:03am Wed 7 Jan 09
David Lacey, Durham says...
8:25am Wed 7 Jan 09
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