Israel will not allow the lives of its citizens to be endangered. If only Gaza's leaders felt the same Hamas's charter includes the aspiration that "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews)". While many concentrate on its death-cult worship, its bloodthirsty killing of adversaries, or its contempt for women, Christians and homosexuals, it is this aspiration for genocide that is at the root of Hamas activities. This is the primary reason why Hamas, the governing regime in Gaza, will never recognise or accept a peace accord with Israel in any form. Since Israel left Gaza in 2005, thousands of rockets have rained down on Israeli cities and towns in deliberate contravention not just of international law, but all humanity and morality. While some might suggest the so-called blockade is the cause of the attacks, it is actually a consequence. The restrictions were only implemented two years after Israel left Gaza, when it was clear that instead of building a "Singapore of the Middle East", Hamas was interested in importing stockpiles of weapons from places like Iran. Instead of building a future for its people, Hamas built an open-air prison for the million and a half inhabitants who fell into its grasp. However, Gaza was never enough for an organisation whose raison d'etre is the annihilation of Israel, and whose charter begins with the ominous warning that "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it". Every rocket from Gaza is a double war crime. First, the rockets are aimed at civilians; second, they are fired from built-up civilian areas, often close to schools, mosques and hospitals. And about 10% of Hamas rockets fired from Gaza don't reach Israel, exploding in Gaza. Mohammed Sadallah – a four-year-old killed on Saturday, his body displayed in a press conference with Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's leader – was, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, most likely killed by an errant Hamas rocket. Hamas leaders frequently declare that their people actively seek death. Fathi Hamad, a senior member of Hamas, stated in 2008 that "for the Palestinian people, death became an industry, at which women and children excel. Accordingly we created a human shield of women, children and elderly. We seek death as you [Israelis] desire life." Hamas seeks conflagration and war. Death and destruction is seen as a win-win calculation, as any Israeli death is considered a glorious achievement and every Palestinian death that of a "holy martyr", providing badly needed propaganda locally and internationally. Seemingly there are not enough deaths for them, so Hamas's military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, has been busy sending out pictures of massacres in Syria, claiming they were taken in Gaza. Israel has been left with little choice but to root out this nest of hate and destruction. No nation on earth would allow a third of its population to live in constant fear of incessant fire emanating from a neighbouring territory. Our government exercised restraint. We gave the international community time to act. However, there was a deafening silence, demonstrating to Israelis that we had to take action to protect our citizens. Those who refused to condemn the attacks on Israeli citizens have no right to condemn Israel's response to establish peace and quiet for its citizens. This is the basic obligation of any sovereign nation, and we will continue taking any action necessary to achieve this aim. In the face of this undeniable truth, the usual accusation is that Israel is responding with "disproportionate force" or carrying out "collective punishment". I urge all who make this accusation to consider that Israel has successfully targeted in excess of 1,300 weapons caches, rocket launchers and other elements of Hamas's terrorist infrastructure. Yet despite this, the number of Palestinian casualties remains around one for every 13 strikes, the majority killed being active members of Hamas and combatants. Israel will not allow its citizens' lives to be endangered. The international community must call on the Palestinian leadership in the Gaza Strip to take the same approach with its own people. source
why not we start with israel open the blockade that many years they already did that keep palestine receive a help from around the world...
Why not just use the border Gaza has with Egypt? Gaza has a border with Egypt so use that and stop blaming Israel for every problem.
but most volunteer help comes from israel border, so how come we can't blame them if each of help that world offer have to end with rejection coz through them .. israel just wanna isolate palestine,...
mr browntown must get his facts right before passing comments about any religion or community.Not only his understanding about Islam is poor,he also seems highly prejudiced
that what I say,.. most Reputation member on Politic & Religion section is retarded. I don't know how come they got so much post with useless info. PS: if they don't like you, they just give you bad rep.... see mine, is easy way to collect reputation... :lol:
Which border do all those brand new rockets being shot at Tel Aviv come from? If Hamas can accumulate so many brand new long range rockets, how can they possibly have any problems getting food, or anything else they want?
Easiest way to get red rep is to create a footer whining about red rep and whine about it in your posts. I see you've mastered both skills. Good work.
Good point - if Hamas in Gaza can get huge rockets over the border secretly, then they should have no problems getting legal supplies openly.
Palestine-Israel conflict is a political issue.It is not a war between jews and muslims as most people prefer to project it
same old, same old,.. this what make world like this,.. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2592810 justice will not tolerance to some people that you compare as above. if you do this, world would be like stone age.. they have own rocket, Israel just accuse that they got another rockets, which I read in news that hamas get al-Fajr (Iran rocket), Iran should make a clarification that they not do this.. hamas and iran have same accuracy but different in distance coverage should I take a screen shoot of my Control panel (Rep. not give on this thread, but on my old thread... even my 2010 thread...)
browntown is a member of Israel fifth column in USA. His posts are copy of the propaganda speeches from Israel government but he pretends to be American to give it credibility.
It is an article from guardian.co.uk written by the Israeli foreign minister. I wish I could articulate the situation as clearly as he does. I posted it because I thought people might want to comment on it. Love the article, hate the article, I don't really give a shit.
Even if that were true, and it is not, the same question applies. Which border do they get the raw materials to build all those rockets being shot at Tel Aviv? If Hamas can accumulate enough materials to build and fire so many new long range rockets at Tel Aviv, how can they possibly have any problems getting food, or anything else they want?
I am so sneaky the way I cited the source article in my original post. Although I do accept your concession that you have no defense of Hamas' behavior and are left with little else but to try and insult me. Bravo.
Why would Iran do that? They are helping their Muslim brother to kill Jews, isn't that something to be proud of? Or is it a matter of shame? Are you ashamed of what Hamas does?