A lone voice of sanity

Whilst the majority of the MSM are tripping over themselves to show more and more support for the Palestinians, a lone voice in the corner pipes up and, as usual, speaks the sense the public should be made to sit down and read.

That voice, my friends, is Melanie Phillips - "Yes the war in Gaza is terrible. But the alternative was worse - for all of us".

All the critical points are made:

• Israel's actions are in response to over 6000 rockets fired into Southern Israel indiscriminantly by Palestinians over several years - what country wouldn't retaliate?
• Comparisons to the IRA and Britain are flawed as it wasn't the Irish government authorising and co-ordinating the attacks.
• Several Arab countries have condemned Hamas (including Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia) yet the Israelis are still seen as aggressors.
• The notion of disproportion is absurd (*1)
• Palestinians are killing Palestinians (*2)
• The land claims are baseless given that Jews inhabited the land centuries before Mohammed was even born

...and more (read it in full).

*1 - I would actually argue that disproportion is actually required as a part of war in order to bring the conflict to a speedy conclusion otherwise it would be endless.

*2 - This point could have been clarified that Hamas are executing those they suspect of assisting Israel. So much for habeus corpus, eh?

The only thing I would have added to the article is to rain down hellfire on the protestors that tooks to the streets calling for a halt to the military action. People seem to believe that the Palestinians only suffer when Israel take action against them.

I would argue that the passion behind the protests stems not only from ignorance of the facts but also from disturbing them from the ignorance of events i.e. when Palestinians are firing rockets indiscriminantly into Israel it isn't reported in the media and as such is like it isn't really happening and we don't have to worry about it.

But when Israel take justifiable action against them our attention is suddenly drawn to the situation and in true leftist fashion sympathy is handed out to those deemed innocent by no other measure than their financial/power status. The demented logic is that Isreal have more money and more power ergo can't possibly be the victim.

The unarguable fact is that Palestine receives more international aid than anywhere else on the planet that runs in into billions of dollars (including money from Isreal) yet it's people are supposedly still living in poverty. If this truly is the case then nobody else is to blame but their government for buying weapons rather than provisions for its people and the ideology of hatred that binds them all together.

But don't take my word it, listen to the son of Hamas leader who was a player himself until he saw the light - Mosab Hassan Yousef. His story and the video Fox News recently broadcast should be required reading for everyone.