Despicable

I have watched the media over the past few weeks as they have tried to remain objective in the conflict that has escalated between Hamas and Israel. I say ‘tried’ because there is always a tendency for popular opinion to be influenced by the grossly unreasonable Antisemitism that is so prevalent in our world.

Yes, many more innocent Palestinians are dying than Israelis, but as the militant leaders of Hamas continuously spew out their hatred for the Jewish people and their desire to eradicate the entire nation of Israel; while they continuously build up arms, firing bigger and bigger rockets into populated Jewish areas targeting civilians; while they do all this and then hide themselves among the civilian population within Gaza, who is really to blame for these Palestinian deaths?

These are the leaders that ‘celebrated’ the bombing of the bus today in Tel Aviv. They celebrate the targeting of innocents including children. And this is the same sentiment that saw people celebrating when the world trade towers fell killing thousands upon thousands of innocent people. So, on the one hand you have people trying to defend themselves against those who actively seek to annihilate them. On the other you have people who celebrate the targeting and killing of innocent people.  

So who is really responsible for the deaths of the Palestinian civilians? It is their own leaders who use them as shields. I have nothing but pity in my heart for the Palestinian people. I only wish that they could come to see that it is their own leaders who are betraying them and who sacrifice them for the cause of their own personal ideology, one that consists of nothing but hatred. 

I just have to add this quote that Cathy shared as a comment:

“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”  Golda Meir (1898-1978), Former Prime of Israel