December 31st, 2008 | 
Author: The short answer to the question, “Was Israel’s Decision To Attack Gaza Correct?” is an unqualified ‘yes’ because Israel’s government had no alternative.
Prior to Israel’s attack on Gaza, Hamas had indiscriminately launched over 3,000 rockets and mortar bombs onto Israeli civilian centers and that was in just 2008, so under the circumstances the Israeli military response was not merely a necessary one, it was the only one available.
Even the Israeli author Amos Oz who is despised and loathed by the vast majority of Israelis because of his extreme left wing and pacifist views recently said in an opinion piece entitled ‘Israel Must Defend Its Citizens’, “The systematic bombing of the citizens in Israel’s towns and cities is a war crime and a crime against humanity”, but he should have gone much further and written that Hamas is also violating the fundamental human rights of the vast majority of Arabs living in the strip and would like to expand its violations to those living in the West Bank as well.
In direct contravention of international law, Hamas uses civilians as human shields and uses their homes, schools and community centers as launching pads for its missiles and does so not only to make it difficult for Israel to respond but because it actually wants Gazans to be injured and killed so that gruesome pictures and videos can be released causing Israel to be demonized.
Hamas took control of the strip by way of a violent coup d’etat and ruthlessly killed and tortured many fellow Arabs including shooting them in the backs of the knees in order to make their kneecaps pop out! It has embraced Iran, repressed women, closed internet cafes, burned books and is doing all in its power to return life in the strip to the 6th century. It has caused most Western countries and many Arab ones too, to shun it, thereby depriving the citizens of much aid that they would have otherwise have received.
The commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ took place last month and difficult questions were raised that related to Darfur, Zimbabwe and many other places that have governments that violate the human rights of their citizens and it would now seem time to add Hamas to the list of the shameful!
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