|
Trending Topics
|
Source: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/08/06/israel-has-a-duty-to-defend-its-people-in-gaza
Israel Has a Duty to Defend Its Citizens
(U.S. News) Mortimer B. Zuckerman - Israel is a democratic country that wishes to live in peace with its neighbors, but cannot escape a duty to defend its citizens. Hamas is a terrorist group whose whole reason for being is genocide. It is dedicated to the extermination of the State of Israel and to the extinction of all Jews, whom it refers to as "inherently evil." Hamas operates by creating grief and then exploiting it. It places missile batteries next to playgrounds, private homes, and mosques - inviting retaliation. It uses UN facilities as weapons depots. Hamas sacrificed the Palestinian people for its ideological cause. Its attack was specifically designed to produce images of dead and injured Palestinians for television. Having more dead on your side does not make you right. It didn't make Japan or Germany right in World War II. The American public is on tricky ground judging Israel on how it treats Palestinians, because we don't have Palestinians threatening us. We can't possibly know how we would cope with rockets, kidnappings and neighbors preaching annihilation. We must ask ourselves what we would do under a situation like this, living in a very small territory and with the constant threat of annihilation. The Jews of Israel have learned in the most barbaric way imaginable that the price of being too strong is not as high as the price of being too weak.