Posted on 07/11/2014 3:41:09 PM PDT by robowombat
Opinion: World Condemns Israel for Protecting Its People
By Tzippe Barrow CBN News Internet Producer - Jerusalem Thursday, July 10, 2014
JERUSALEM, Israel -- As Israel fights back against Hamas -- the Palestinian terror group that openly declares its intention to wipe the Jewish state off the map -- it faces condemnation from the Arab world.
The spokesman for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan called for an immediate halt to Israel's "barbaric aggression."
The Islamic Republic of Iran, responsible in large part for funding, training and arming Hamas and other Islamist terror groups, called on the West to condemn the Zionists' "savage aggression…against the innocent and defenseless people of Palestine."
President Barack Obama leveled the playing field by urging both sides "not to act out of revenge."
The Arab League, meanwhile, wants the U.N. Security Council to convene over Israel's response to rockets targeting its major population centers.
But many Israelis and their friends around the globe ask how can the world condemn a country for protecting its people? But that's exactly what Israel faces every time it's forced to act against those seeking its destruction.
It doesn't seem to matter how well or how often Israel explains its position or how hard it tries to avoid collateral damage while destroying munitions factories, weapons warehouses, rocket launch sites, and arms smuggling tunnels in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli leaders vowed the operation in Gaza will expand and continue until the rocket fire stops and quiet returns.
"Hamas will pay a heavy price for firing at Israeli citizens," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after meeting with Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, and Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Sami Turgeman. "Hamas has chosen escalation," Gantz said. "The other organizations have joined it and we will use all the power we have, in varying degrees, to ensure what we consider a victory. We will exact the full price [from Hamas] for the strategic mistake it has made."
Ya'alon also said Hamas would pay "a very heavy price" and the campaign would not end "in a matter of days."
"We are destroying [the terror group's] arms, terrorist infrastructure, command and control systems, institutions, government buildings, terrorists' homes," Ya'alon said. "And we are killing terrorists in the organization's high command," referring to a pinpoint air strike that took out a senior Hamas terrorist Wednesday as he traveled by motorcycle in northern Gaza.
"We will continue to hit Hamas and other terrorist organizations hard from the air, at sea, and on the ground in order to ensure the security of the citizens of Israel," Ya'alon said.
Most Israelis back the government's full-scale operation against Gaza-based jihadists. Many hope the IDF will succeed in destroying as much as the terrorist infrastructure as possible, now threatening the Jewish state's major population centers.
And the world makes no comment when Hamas publicly asks their people to serve as human shields.
Frank Luntz just released a poll which states that B-HO has a 55% approval rate amongst American Jews... And that’s TODAY. (I’m beginning to wonder why I should still give a damn, when they DON’T... But I do and always will.)
Or that Israel is among the most liberal places to be in the Middle East, a place so in line of western liberal ideology. Yet the left doesn’t care about a liberal nation getting maligned.
More evidence, if any be needed, that liberalism is a mental disease. In Israel the left routinely slanders the IDF in terms similar to what the left used during the Viet Nam War. They also spew pure hatred towards nationalistic or religious Jews. The difference to here in the 60’s and there now is that the paliwogs want to massacre most of the Jews and drive the rest into exile. So the left is more interested in holding on to its feelings of psychological superiority their philosophy imparts to them than facing the reality that the Arabs want to torture and murder them after raping their daughters and wives before their eyes and then killing or enslaving the Jewish females. If that is not insanity i don't know what is.
Stunning, Robo, just stunning. Thank you for your reply and hope you’re well.
Hamas builds deep tunnels for protection of its weapons.
Israel builds deep bomb shelters for protection of its people.
Gaza doesn`t appear to have a single bomb shelter(?) for protection of its people.’
I wonder why.....
No wonder so many Gaza civilians die from Israeli bombs.
HMMMMMMMMMM
Israel uses it’s weapons to protect it’s people, Hamas uses it’s people to protect it’s weapons.
Israel uses its weapons to protect its people.
Hamas uses its people as sandbags to protect its leaders.
there fixed it.
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