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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/column/melanie-phillips/the-ethnic-cleansers-of-whitehall
It Is an Outrageous Inversion of Reality to Blame Israel for Gaza's Humanitarian Catastrophe rather than Hamas
(JNS) Melanie Phillips - UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has defined the values of the Labour Party as the promotion of lies, defamation and Jew-hate. It is an outrageous inversion of reality to blame Israel for Gaza's humanitarian catastrophe rather than Hamas, which used civilians as cannon fodder while Israel went to unprecedented lengths to supply them with aid that Hamas then stole. The half million Jews living in Judea and Samaria are under constant attack by local Arabs. Rocks are thrown at Israelis in their cars; Jewish farmers are having their fields torched and their flocks stolen. Over the years, dozens of Israelis in these areas have been murdered. None of this is reported in Britain. The charge that the Jews are perpetrating ethnic cleansing of the Arabs is grotesque. In fact, it's the Burnham government that's demanding the ethnic cleansing of every Jew from their own land to create a fantasy state of Palestine that wouldn't have a single Jew in it. By cementing the image of Israel as uniquely evil, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband will further galvanize the Islamists, already delirious that their campaign to reframe Israel in the Western mind as the worst country in the world has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Miliband defamed Israel and laid out how it would be punished for the crime of refusing to commit suicide. It would never occur to Miliband to sanction Palestinian leaders for tyrannizing Palestinian Arab dissidents, supporting and rewarding terrorists, and teaching their community's children that their highest calling is to murder Jews and steal their land. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.