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To: tejek who wrote (795460)	7/17/2014 11:11:29 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580261

>> The American press should be crucifying Israel; Yes, we know. All countries acting in self-defense should be crucified in the American media, right?

To: tejek who wrote (795460)

7/18/2014 12:16:45 PM

From: Brumar89

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The press should be crucifying Hamas for hiding behind civilians. Why do substantial percentages of Isrealis go into shelters during shelling, but Gazans don't? It's not because there aren't shelters and tunnels there ... they store their missiles underground and the Hamas leadership spends much of their time there.

To deliberately wage war so that your own people can be telegenically killed is indeed moral and tactical insanity. But it rests on a very rational premise: Given the Orwellian state of the world’s treatment of Israel (see: the U.N.’s grotesque Human Rights Council), fueled by a mix of classic anti-Semitism, near-total historical ignorance, and reflexive sympathy for the ostensible Third World underdog, these eruptions featuring Palestinian casualties ultimately undermine support for Israel’s legitimacy and right to self-defense.

In a world of such Kafkaesque ethical inversions, Hamas’ depravity begins to make sense. This is a world in which the Munich massacre is a movie and the murder of Klinghoffer is an opera — both deeply sympathetic to the killers. This is a world in which the U.N. ignores humanity’s worst war criminals while incessantly condemning Israel, a state warred upon for 66 years which nonetheless goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid harming the very innocents its enemies use as shields.

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