My friend Zeev in Tel Aviv received a copy of this and made the comments below.
Taro
"My friend, can you provide a link to this? An excellent summary of the situation.
Here are my thoughts on the recent events - feel free to publish:
It is the same never ending story: terrorists fire at Israeli forces from some school or hospital building full of civilians, Israeli military fire back - and the press screams "massacre" and shows pictures of civilians torn by the explosion of the shell.
Hamas rejoice, public opinion turns against Israel, prostituting Western leaders get scared of their growing Moslem electorate, lose heart and put pressure on Israel to stop fighting the terrorists.
I am sorry to say that we Israelis have not found the solution for this one yet.
Who is responsible - the murderous psychos who fire mortar shells from a school or the military that return fire in the "real time" heat of a battle, without any possibility to check if there are civilian human shields there? Who is performing the massacre?
The international law is clear on this - terrorists that use civilians as human shields are the war criminals.
The press could not care less - they get a pornographic opportunity to take pictures of some dead bodies and print a 'massacre" headline, and this is agood enough for them.
WHO STANDS TO BENEFIT?
Is it Israel that immediately gets blamed and has public opinion turned against it thanks to the biased press, or the war criminals who position their mortars in the middle of a crowd of civilians, hoping for a bloody photo op?
The last case was the UNRWA school building yesterday.
Hamas fired mortar shells from just outside the school, out of a midst of a civilian crowd.
Israeli military fired right back and hit the target, killing both terrorists that operated the mortar, and tens of the civilian crowd.
The immediate screaming headlines were that Israelis bombed a school massacred civilians.
Nothing about Hamas firing from a crowd; or that there were no students in the "school" because students do no attend schools in Gaza now; or that the shells did not hit the school at all but right near it, where the terrorist were (as clarified in UNRWA announcement).
This is appalling. Harsh and paradoxical as this may sound, democracy is entitled to some protection against newsmen who are either gullible enough to be manipulated by the terrorists, or criminally hungry for pornographic death pictures that cause a moral inversion of the public." |
