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Tell Us, Europe, What Should Israel Do?

(JNS) Fiamma Nirenstein - You, who march through the streets of Italy, the UK or Germany with Palestinian flags and shout slogans accusing Israel of crimes against humanity, tell me, what should Israel do? You, who don't rush to protest against the blatant crimes against humanity contained in targeting innocent civilians when terrorists are bombing homes, schools, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. You, who solely condemned the right of Israel to defend itself from those ready to murder its citizens by blowing up buses and pizzerias, when suicide terrorists killed almost 2,000 Israelis during the Second Intifada. Hamas attacked Israel for no reason. In another round of war, the terrorist group that rules Gaza, free of any Israeli presence for the past 16 years, tortures the entire Israeli civilian population by randomly targeting it with the goal to kill and destroy. The truth is that it's the result of prejudice against the State of Israel by those who deem it unworthy of existence and survival. It's European anti-Semitism - mimicking past notions that the Jews as a people were unworthy of existence and survival. Israel must stop Hamas, even if the asymmetric war is terrible and painful. Delegitimizing Israel's right to defend itself automatically legitimizes its enemies' goal to eliminate the Jewish people. The writer, former vice president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, is a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
2021-05-20 00:00:00
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