From Remember What Happened Here
So in 2005 the Palestinians are given Gaza, free of any Jews. Do they begin building the state they say they want, constructing schools and roads and hospitals? No. They launch rockets at civilians and dig a 300-yard tunnel under the border to attack Israeli soldiers and bring back a hostage.And this time the terrorism is carried out not by some shadowy group that the Palestinian leader can disavow, however disingenuously. This is Hamas in action–the group that was recently elected to lead the Palestinians. At least there is now truth in advertising: a Palestinian government openly committed to terrorism and to the destruction of a member state of the U.N. openly uses terrorism to carry on its war.
That is no cycle. That is an arrow. That is action with a purpose. The action began 59 years ago when the U.N. voted to solve the Palestine conundrum then ruled by Britain by creating a Jewish state and a Palestinian state side by side. The Jews accepted the compromise; the Palestinians rejected it and joined five outside Arab countries in a war to destroy the Jewish state and take all the territory for themselves.
They failed, and Israel survived. That remains, in the Palestinian view, Israel’s original sin, the foundational crime for the cycle: Israel’s survival. That’s the reason for the rockets, for the tunneling, for the kidnapping–and for Israel’s current response.
Last night I wrote to Jon Snow after this flagrant anti-Israeli outburst.:
Dear Mr Snow,Just a note to express my disappointment at the flagrantly anti-Israeli position that you have adopted recently.
I cannot understand how people express outrage at Israel when they so obviously the wronged party here.
Israel withdrew fully from Gaza last year, painfully uprooting thousands of settlers.
As a thank you, then the people of the PA democratically elected a terrorist organisation to lead them as their government.
That Hamas government allows/encourages members of its own military wing to repeatedly attack Israeli civilians with rockets from that surrendered territory.
Then last week, Hamas attack a military post and captures a young soldier.
You then express outrage at Israel’s measured response?!
The Palestinian government (and by extension the people who voluntarily and democratically chose that government) has a choice. It can keep attacking Israel and refuse to hand over the solider. They must accept the consequences of waging war on Israel.
Alternatively they can hand over the abducted soldier and Israeli civilians, cease the rocket attacks and there will be peace.
What would you have Israel do? Allow daily bombardment from a foreign territory? Negotiate with terrorists who abduct your soldiers? Support a violently hostile neighbouring government that has as a founding principle the annihilation of your people?
You asked the Deputy Ambassador what effect he thought the images from the PA were having on global opinion.
I wish he had reminded you that of the Israelis had ever heeded world opinion they would all decamp to Masada and commit suicide. Israel survives precisely because it does what it needs to do and pays no heed to the effects of enemy propaganda on world opinion.
Your anti-Israeli outburst made a mockery of any claim you have to impartiality on this issue.
Until you have sobered up and see that Israeli villainy always takes place in the context of extreme hostility and violence against them, you ought to avoid reporting on the issue.
In fact, if I were you I would hold my tongue until you can report with straight face that a Hamas spokesman deeply regrets Israeli civilian casualties, that a full investigating has been ordered and Palestinian supreme court is investigating Israeli civilian deaths.
Kind regards
Jonathan Davis
http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/
He replied within minutes with a sarcastic response:
Jonathan I’m grateful to you for pointing all this out..i shall keep your email to hand for future guidance. Much apprecated, best wishes, jon snow
I have to admit that amused me.
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