(The Australian) Arsen Ostrovsky - In Israel more than one million people are in bomb shelters, seeking cover from a hail of rockets being rained down by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza. A further 3 1/2 million live directly in the line of fire. I'm angry that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was unable to unequivocally condemn the Palestinian rocket attacks without implying a moral equivalence between Israel taking defensive action against the terror attacks and Hamas deliberately targeting innocent civilians. I'm angry that while human rights organizations do not waste a single opportunity to condemn Israel for human rights violations against the Palestinians, the human rights of Israelis are seemingly not important enough for them. I'm angry that schools in southern Israel have been closed for an entire week because of the rocket attacks, while countless children have barely known a day of peace in their lives, running from one bomb shelter to another. In the course of writing this article, I have had to run - twice - to a bomb shelter. The writer is an international human rights lawyer who grew up in Australia and lives in Israel.
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