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12-31-2008 10:19 PM
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merrie says:
Following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday, President Shimon Peres spoke to the press. “Nobody in this world understands what are Hamas’s goals and why it continues to fire missiles,” Peres said. “This shooting has no point, no logic and no chance.”

I hesitate to say that I understand something about the Middle East that Peres doesn’t, but Hamas’s goals seem clear to me. The first is the destruction of the Jewish state. The second is to make it seem right.

Here’s Alan Dershowitz at the Christian Science Monitor:

There have been three types of international response to the Israeli military actions against the Hamas rockets. Not surprisingly, Iran, Hamas, and other knee-jerk Israeli-bashers have argued that the Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli civilians are entirely legitimate and that the Israeli counterattacks are war crimes.
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12-31-2008 10:23 PM
merrie
Here’s Alan Dershowitz at the Christian Science Monitor:

Equally unsurprising is the response of the United Nations, the European Union, Russia, and others who, at least when it comes to Israel, see a moral and legal equivalence between terrorists who target civilians and a democracy that responds by targeting the terrorists.

And finally, there is the United States and a few other nations that place the blame squarely on Hamas for its unlawful and immoral policy of using its own civilians as human shields, behind whom they fire rockets at Israeli civilians.

The most dangerous of the three responses is not the Iranian-Hamas abs...
1-2-2009 7:09 PM
sillysam
I don't think that I have come across any Europeans on Clipmarks who aren't anti-Israel. It is no wonder that Hitler was able to do what he did.
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