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Most of your article is behind a paywall.
Are you Jewish?
I notice Thane Rosenbaum didn't use the word "occupation" to describe the recent events in Gaza.
Why do you imagine the WSJ would omit that bit of important context?
Most of your article is behind a paywall.
Are you Jewish?
I notice Thane Rosenbaum didn't use the word "occupation" to describe the recent events in Gaza.
Why do you imagine the WSJ would omit that bit of important context?
Do you mean the hundreds of thousand of Palestinians who were perceived to lose their homes, businesses, farms, and bank accounts when the heroic Jews unleashed al-Nakba? Or the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who were perceived to die from US actions between 1991 and 2001?
Hamas had nothing to do with 911, remember?
15 Saudis collapsed three steel-framed skyscrapers with two magical airliners and Jews danced in the streets of New Jersey.
Document one case where Hamas has been convicted of using human shields.
"Prior to 2008-2009 Gaza War[edit]
Amnesty International[14] and Human Rights Watch[15] said the Israel Defense Forces used Palestinian civilians as human shields during the 2002 Battle of Jenin. The Israelihuman rights group B'Tselem said that 'for a long period of time following the outbreak of the second intifada, particularly during Operation Defensive Shield, in April 2002, the IDF systematically used Palestinian civilians as human shields, forcing them to carry out military actions which threatened their lives'.[16][17] Al Mezan reported the systematic use of 'human shields"
' during the invasion of Beit Hanoun in 2004.[18]
Human shield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are proven anti-Semitic Jew hating groups?So you are using two proven ANTI SEMITIC JEW HATING groups as proof that Israel has been convicted of using human shields. How about the words of hamas themselves when they admitted not once by many times of using women, children and the infirm as human shields. Then the recent reports by journalists that show hamas is using women, children and disabled as human shields, and protected non combatant journalists as well.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are proven anti-Semitic Jew hating groups?
The article is behind a paywall.I'm not Jewish, but why should that matter? Obviously that is important to you. I wonder why?
Why don't you address the meat and potatoes of the article? What are you afraid of? You know that everything that man stated in that article is the honest truth. You should deal with it.
Elliot Abrams is a war criminal and serial liar, and he's a long, long way from "non-partisan."Correct and all you need do is look at the reports on them, you can start here
Criticism of Amnesty International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Israel[edit]
Elliott Abrams, writing about the November 2012 Israeli military response in Gaza, says that AI treats "Hamas and other terrorist groups" "with an 'evenhandedness' that bespeaks deep biases," citing NGO Monitor's detailed research.[23]
Criticism of Human Rights Watch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HRW has been accused of bias against the state of Israel[28][29][30][31][32][33] of issuing one-sided and hostile reports attacking Israel[34] and of having an anti-Israel agenda[25][35][36][37][38][39] by general circulation newspapers, the Israeli government and supporters of Israel.[
Got a link for those 200 rockets fired at Israel in the months preceding the attacks? The murder of the three squatters on the West Bank was known within 24 hours of their abduction; why did Israel wait 18 days to reveal that information? Why did Israel arrest hundreds of innocent Palestinians during those 18 days and bulldoze dozens of Palestinian homes, collective punishment maybe?because it wasn't an occupation it was a full blown invasion as a response to hamas war. The Palestinians declare warlike intent and Israel will respond with armed aggression, don't like it then stop the warmongering and attacks. Remember the 200 rockets fired at Israel in the months preceeding the attack, they were declarations of war according to International law. The murder of 3 Israeli boys by a hamas cell was a declaration of war as well, for which the Israelis could have claimed that the death of the Palestinian boy was in response to the declaration of war.
The article is behind a paywall.
How would I be expected to read it?
The fact that the WSJ supports Israel's colonization of Palestine is old news.
Let's state the obvious: No one likes to see dead children. Well, that's not completely true: Hamas does. They would prefer those children to be Jewish, but there is greater value to them if they are Palestinian. Outmatched by Israel's military, handicapped by rocket launchers with the steady hands of Barney Fife, Hamas is playing the long game of moral revulsion.
With this conflict about to enter its third week, winning the PR war is the best Hamas can hope to achieve. Their weapon of choice, however, seems to be the cannon fodder of their own people, performing double duty in also sounding the drumbeat of Israeli condemnation. If you can't beat Iron Dome, then deploy sacrificial children as human shields.
The people of Gaza overwhelmingly elected Hamas, a terrorist outfit dedicated to the destruction of Israel, as their designated representatives. Almost instantly Hamas began stockpiling weapons and using them against a more powerful foe with a solid track record of retaliation.
What did Gazans think was going to happen? Surely they must have understood on election night that their lives would now be suspended in a state of utter chaos. Life expectancy would be miserably low; children would be without a future. Staying alive would be a challenge, if staying alive even mattered anymore.
To make matters worse, Gazans sheltered terrorists and their weapons in their homes, right beside ottoman sofas and dirty diapers. When Israel warned them of impending attacks, the inhabitants defiantly refused to leave.
On some basic level, you forfeit your right to be called civilians when you freely elect members of a terrorist organization as statesmen, invite them to dinner with blood on their hands and allow them to set up shop in your living room as their base of operations. At that point you begin to look a lot more like conscripted soldiers than innocent civilians. And you have wittingly made yourself targets.
Got a link for those 200 rockets fired at Israel in the months preceding the attacks? The murder of the three squatters on the West Bank was known within 24 hours of their abduction; why did Israel wait 18 days to reveal that information? Why did Israel arrest hundreds of innocent Palestinians during those 18 days and bulldoze dozens of Palestinian homes, collective punishment maybe?
"On some basic level, you forfeit your right to be called civilians when you freely elect members of a terrorist organization as statesmen, invite them to dinner with blood on their hands and allow them to set up shop in your living room as their base of operations. At that point you begin to look a lot more like conscripted soldiers than innocent civilians. And you have wittingly made yourself targets."Here is a copy of the article.
"On some basic level, you forfeit your right to be called civilians when you freely elect members of a terrorist organization as statesmen, invite them to dinner with blood on their hands and allow them to set up shop in your living room as their base of operations. At that point you begin to look a lot more like conscripted soldiers than innocent civilians. And you have wittingly made yourself targets."
Your article never mentions the illegal occupation of Palestine that led Gazans to "freely elect members of a terrorist organization as statesmen..."
Israel drove hundreds of thousands of Palestinians off their land and into crowded refugee camps in Gaza in 1948, and Israel has been occupying that territory since 1967.
You can't honestly address the issue of violent resistance coming from Gaza without acknowledging the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine.
In 1917, towards the end of World War I, South Western Syria, following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, was occupied by British forces. The United Kingdom was granted control of the area west of the River Jordan now comprising the State of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Mandatory Palestine), and on the east bank of what later became Jordan (as a separate mandate) by the Versailles Peace Conference which established the League of Nations in 1919. Herbert Samuel, a former Postmaster General in the British cabinet, who was instrumental in drafting the Balfour Declaration was appointed the first High Commissioner of Mandatory Palestine, generally simply known as Palestine. During World War I the British had made two promises regarding territory in the Middle East. Britain had promised the local Arabs, through Lawrence of Arabia, independence for a united Arab country covering most of the Arab Middle East, in exchange for their supporting the British; and Britain had promised to create and foster a Jewish national home as laid out in the Balfour Declaration, 1917.
In 1947, following increasing levels of violence, the British government expressed a wish to withdraw from Palestine. The proposed plan of partition would have split Palestine into two states, an Arab state and a Jewish state, and the City of Jerusalem, giving slightly more than half the land area to the proposed Jewish state. Immediately following the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Partition Plan (Resolution 181(II) ), and the subsequent declaration of statehood by the Jewish National Council, civil war broke out between the Arab community and the Jewish community, as armies of the Arab League, which rejected the Partition Plan which Israel accepted, sought to squelch the new Jewish state.[131]
On 14 May 1948, one day before the end of the British Mandate, the leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine led by the future prime minister David Ben-Gurion, declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.[132]
Western Wall in Jerusalem
The armies of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq marched into the territory of what had just ceased to be the British Mandate, thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The nascentIsrael Defense Forces repulsed the Arab armies, and extended Israel's borders beyond the original Resolution 181(II) boundaries for the proposed Jewish state.[133] By December 1948, Israel controlled most of the portion of Mandate Palestine west of the Jordan River. The remainder of the Mandate came to be called the West Bank (controlled by Jordan), and the Gaza Strip (controlled by Egypt). Prior to and during this conflict, 711,000 Palestinians Arabs[134] were expelled or fled their homes to become Palestinian refugees.[135]
After the establishment of Israel, immigration of Holocaust survivors from Europe and a large influx of Jewish refugees from Arab countries had doubled Israel's population within one year of its independence. Overall, during the following years approximately 850,000 Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews fled or were expelled from Arab countries, Iran and Afghanistan. Of these, about 680,000 settled in Israel. Among the Arab population of the British Mandate of Palestine, many were displaced into Jordanian-controlled West Bank, Egyptian-controlled Gaza Strip and the surrounding countries, with about 15% becoming refugees in surrounding Arab countries.
Israel's Jewish population continued to grow at a very high rate for years, fed by waves of Jewish immigration from round the world, including the massive immigration wave of Soviet Jews, who arrived in Israel in the early 1990s, according to the Law of Return. Some 380,000 Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union arrived in 1990–91 alone.
Since 1948, Israel has been involved in a series of major military conflicts, including the 1956 Suez Crisis, 1967 Six-Day War, 1973 Yom Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, and 2006 Lebanon War, as well as a nearly constant series of other conflicts, among them the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Despite the constant security threats, Israel—a majorly Jewish state—has thrived economically. Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s there were numerous liberalization measures: in monetary policy, in domestic capital markets, and in various instruments of governmental interference in economic activity. The role of government in the economy was considerably decreased. On the other hand, some governmental economic functions were increased: a national health insurance system was introduced, though private health providers continued to provide health services within the national system. Social welfare payments, such as unemployment benefits, child allowances, old age pensions and minimum income support, were expanded continuously, until they formed a major budgetary expenditure. These transfer payments compensated, to a large extent, for the continuous growth of income inequality, which had moved Israel from among the developed countries with the least income inequality to those with the most.
"On some basic level, you forfeit your right to be called civilians when you freely elect members of a terrorist organization as statesmen, invite them to dinner with blood on their hands and allow them to set up shop in your living room as their base of operations. At that point you begin to look a lot more like conscripted soldiers than innocent civilians. And you have wittingly made yourself targets."
Your article never mentions the illegal occupation of Palestine that led Gazans to "freely elect members of a terrorist organization as statesmen..."
Israel drove hundreds of thousands of Palestinians off their land and into crowded refugee camps in Gaza in 1948, and Israel has been occupying that territory since 1967.
You can't honestly address the issue of violent resistance coming from Gaza without acknowledging the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine.
