Israel, Hamas, Hatred & the Media

Part 1 Israel’s Two Wars by Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families: Israel continues to hit Hamas hard in Gaza in an effort to uproot the terrorist group and stop its daily rocket attacks against Israeli cities. Hamas is a brutal enemy, dedicated to a “world without Jews” and bankrolled by the Hitler “wannabe” Ahmadinejad in Iran. It routinely hides its fighters and war-making materials in mosques, schools, nurseries, hospitals and homes. It uses women and children as shields, then cries “War crimes!” when inevitable civilian casualties take place.

As Israeli forces advance further into Gaza, they face the prospect of brutal door-to-door fighting in Gaza City, where Hamas will enjoy great advantages. The cost is likely to be high. But, as brutal as Hamas is, it is the second war front where the long-term danger to Israel is greater. The front I refer to is the one being fought for world and American public opinion.

Here Israel faces a willfully clueless media, which constantly distort news from the battlefield. They grotesquely turn Hamas terrorists into “freedom fighters” and obscenely present Israel as the aggressor. All weekend, CNN’s headline was “Israel’s War On Gaza.” Not once in the last two years, as rockets blasted Israel daily, sending thousands of people into bomb shelters, did CNN run a headline, “Hamas’ War on Israel.”

The media are joined by the United Nations diplomats and the “peace now” crowd, who have infinite tolerance for dead Jews, but no tolerance for Israel defending itself, as any sovereign nation would do under similar circumstances. These diplomats turn a blind eye to genocide in Africa, nuclear weapons in the hands of maniacs and repeated barbaric terrorist atrocities by Islamofascists. But if an Israeli soldier shoots an enemy combatant, they rush to call emergency meetings of the Security Council to condemn the Israelis.

I have no doubt Israel can win this war in Gaza. And if it does, the world, including Barack Obama, should thank it for doing the dirty work of defending civilization. I am more worried about whether Israel can survive its other enemies -- those who manipulate the facts and distort reality in an effort to undermine Israel’s right to self defense.

Part 2 Hated of Jews / Israel by Dr. Bill Smith, ARRA Editor: How many rockets from Mexico, Cuba, etc into populated areas of the U.S, would it take before we launched retaliatory action? If we knew the source of the rockets to these countries, how long before we would act to punish the offending countries? Hypocrisy reigns in the liberal media.

I feel for the Palestinian people not just because they are in the midst of another war, but because they were so abused by the other Arab Nations as far back as when the 1947 UN Partition Plan which was accepted in part by Jewish leaders but rejected by Arab leaders. Instead the Arab leaders of other countries sought to destroy the Jewish people and in doing so also persecuted and drug the Palestinian people into the war.

It was hate by the Arab leaders of the countries surrounding Israel that has established the pattern that still exist today. While Israel has time and again tried to make peace with its neighboring countries and the Palestinians, the hatred fueled by people in one or more of the surrounding countries has been damaging to both the Palestinian and the Jews and others who peacefully have tried to live in Israel.

How can a people so poor have money to acquire rockets? They can't? The rockets and weapons are obviously being provided by others who hate the Jewish people and in fact do not care if Palestinian are also destroyed in the process. Continue to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and for all the innocent caught in the middle of the war. Pray that the evils and deceptions of the enemies of Israel will be made embarrassingly clear to the whole world.

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