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Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-perspec-1209-israel-20111209,0,2865182.story
When It Comes to Israel, Why Is the World Silent?
(Chicago Tribune) Ron Prosor - Imagine that the citizens of El Paso, Laredo and San Antonio have to stay inside their homes. Schools are closed, businesses are shut and people have to suspend their lives because groups in Mexico are firing thousands of deadly missiles at Texans across the border. Sometimes a school is hit, sometimes a grocery store, and every so often someone is killed. Imagine a similar occurrence in Seattle, Detroit or Cleveland - with rockets raining in from Canada. The very thought of terrorists in another country attacking Americans at random is ludicrous. You know the president would immediately order the U.S. military to respond, root out the terrorists and make sure that the Canadian or Mexican governments clearly understood that this behavior would not be tolerated. The UN Security Council would immediately condemn this infringement on a country's sovereignty and the safety of its citizens. The UN charter makes a country's self-defense as legal as it is logical. This is universally understood. So why is it not natural to support the same for Israel? Since the beginning of October, more than 70 rockets and missiles have rained down on southern Israel from Gaza, which remains under the control of the Hamas terrorist organization. Last week, Israel's northern towns were hit by rockets fired from Lebanon. Last month, a man was killed when a rocket struck his car on his evening commute home. If it is not OK to fire deadly rockets at the citizens of any of the other 193 member states that make up the UN, why is the world silent when the victims are Israelis? The writer is Israel's permanent representative to the United Nations.