Posted on 03/11/2008 9:29:04 AM PDT by ventanax5
However the real story is the failure of much of the world’s media to report this story in context, and to see it for the pure evil that it really is. Moral relativity has caused an amazing inability to distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys in this story. Most media pundits see the attack as part of a larger and endless cylce of violence, with each side, the Israelis and Palestinians constantly hitting back at each other. The NY Times worried that the attack “seemed likely to continue or intensify the surge of hostilities between Palestinians and Israelis in recent days.” But little attention is ever given to the particular nature of these hostilities and what drives them.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
I don’t know. I think it’s just that we’re so inured to it... I mean, how worked up did we get over the NIU shootings? The mall shootings? The West Virginia thing was big largely because of the number of casualties. I don’t think it’s that we don’t grieve with the Israelis, but what is there to say?
http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=72693&v=2573525021
Here’s a good comeback the next time some left-wing “human rights” type argues that Israel’s response to the more than 4,000 rockets and mortars lobbed into Israeli territory from Gaza since Israel withdrew in 2005 has been “disproportionate”: agree. And then recite the following from a column by Jonathan Mark in the latest issue of the New York Jewish Week:
On June 21, 2007, to pick a random day when hundreds of children in Sderot were being medically treated for trauma from the rockets, Israel responded not by sending tanks but by sending trucks. The trucks gave Hamas five tons of tea, 34 tons of macaroni, 15 tons of hummus, and 33 tons of lentils.
That didn’t stop the rockets, so on June 27, a summer day when hundreds of Sderot children were too scared to play outside, Israel sent Gaza five tons of semolina and 27 tons of seedlings.
That didn’t stop the rockets, so the next day Israel sent into the land of Hamas 143 tons of bananas. One may wonder if that was proportionate to the number of rockets.
On July 1, a day when the Jews of Sderot were afraid to go shopping without looking into the sky, Israel sent into Hamas territory 20 tons of coffee and 20 tons of cocoa. The next day, Israel sent Gaza 54 tons of jam. The day after that, as rockets fell, Israel sent Hamas 28 tons of pasta.
All of this was announced by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cocoa and jam are hardly necessities. Even as Gaza was smoking from Israel’s retaliatory raids this past week, Israel sent in (on March 2), 62 trucks carrying sugar, milk and fruit, along with meat and fish, among other things.
If that was done for good will, or whether it was proportionate, has gone unreported. Chances are this is the first time you’re hearing about Israel sending tea and jam behind Hamas lines.
We’re not faulting Israel for making sure that Gaza doesn’t starve. But it does underscore that if there is something disproportionate about the Israeli response to the attacks on its civilians, it isn’t the military retaliation.
"what is there to say?"?
I'd favor something along the lines of: eliminating islam would eliminate 95% of the world's terrorism. Go forth with our blessings...
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