{"id":70251,"date":"2019-05-10T17:05:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=70251"},"modified":"2019-05-10T15:38:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T13:38:42","slug":"21-05-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=70251","title":{"rendered":"ILHAN OMAR\u2019S IGNORANCE AND BIGOTRY ON GAZA ROCKETS – COMMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>ILHAN OMAR\u2019S IGNORANCE AND BIGOTRY ON GAZA ROCKETS – COMMENT<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

ALAN DERSHOWITZ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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To be sure, 30 Palestinians were killed and 154 injured by Israeli efforts to stop the rocket rampage. Many of these were terrorists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) participates in a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, US, April 10, 2019. (photo credit: JIM BOURG\/ REUTERS)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

All decent people should be outraged at the terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip that fired 698 rockets at Israeli civilians \u2013 killing four, injuring 234 and traumatizing thousands of innocent children. Imagine what other countries, including the United States, would do if lethal rockets targeted their civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, Israel has responded with restraint. To be sure, 30 Palestinians were killed and 154 injured by Israeli efforts to stop the rocket rampage. Many of these were terrorists, but some were civilians who were put in harm\u2019s way by the terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n

These deaths and injuries were caused by the tactic employed by Hamas and Islamic in Jihad: they deliberately place their rocket launchers in densely populated areas \u2013 near schools, hospitals and mosques \u2013 in a deliberate effort to maximize Arab civilian casualties. This has been called \u201cthe dead baby\u201d or \u201cCNN\u201d strategy. The goal is to have CNN and other media show the children and other civilians that Israeli counter-measures have inadvertently killed, while trying to stop the terrorist rockets from killing Israeli children and other civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tragically, this strategy works, because with the media, \u201cif it bleeds, it leads.\u201d The visual media love to show dead and injured children, without explaining that they are actually encouraging such casualties by playing into terrorist\u2019s hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, too, is US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar encouraging the firing of rockets by Hamas and Islamic Jihad by blaming the Israeli victims for what she calls the \u201ccycle of violence,\u201d instead of blaming those groups for initiating terrorist violence against innocent Israeli civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a tweet following the rocket barrage, Omar justifies the double war crimes committed by terrorists who target Israeli civilians while using Palestinian civilians as human shields. She asks rhetorically, how many \u201crockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends?\u201d This implies that these war crimes are justified by what she calls the \u201coccupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

DOES OMAR not realize that Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005 when it removed every soldier and settler from that area? Gaza could have become the Singapore of the Mediterranean, with its port and location. The Israelis left behind greenhouses and other facilities. Europe and Qatar poured money into the Gaza Strip.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Hamas \u2013 which forcefully took over the area from the Palestinian Authority \u2013 decided to turn it instead into a large scale rocket launcher. Instead of using its newly acquired resources to provide humanitarian benefits to its residents, it used them to build terrorist rockets and tunnels that targeted Israeli civilians. This forced Israelis to take counter-measures to protect its citizens. To use the \u201coccupation\u201d \u2013 there is no longer any occupation \u2013 as a justification for why \u201crockets must be fired\u201d is to show both ignorance and bigotry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor is Omar alone in blaming Israel for the rocket attacks on its civilians. The ADC (American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee) issued a statement condemning Israel for \u201ctargeting and killing Palestinian civilians, including children and infants.\u201d Irresponsibly, it never once mentioned the firing of 698 rockets by the rulers of Gaza that target Israeli civilians, nor did it ever mention the sad reality that Hamas and Islamic Jihad deliberately use \u201cPalestinian civilians, including children and infants\u201d as human shields in order to increase the number of inadvertent Palestinian casualties.<\/span><\/p>\n

The conflict in Gaza will only get worse if terrorism is encouraged by the lies of commission and omission told by Omar, ACD and other supporters of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. All decent people must try to discourage the targeting of civilians by terrorist rockets and tunnels. A good beginning would be to tell the truth.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I write these words from Israel, which is now commemorating the many soldiers who have fallen over its years of fighting against those who would destroy the nation state of the Jewish people. It is also celebrating its 71st year of independence. No nation has contributed so much to humankind in so short a period of time. No nation faced with threats compared to those faced by Israel has ever had a better record of human rights, compliance with the rule of law or concern with avoiding civilian casualties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The world should join Israeli in celebrating its 71st year of statehood. The world should also recognize that if Israel\u2019s enemies stopped attacking its citizens, there would be peace \u2013 but if Israel stopped defending its citizens, there would be genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n

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