Israel has far far more culpability than does Hamas.
70+ years of murder, theft, torture, apartheid, &
oppression by Israel created this conflict.
Israel has the overwhelming military advantage,
which is mis-uses. It must end the genocide,
& begin offering justice.
No, I don’t think Israel has far more culpability at all. It doesn’t matter or work when Israel offers justice or peace because Hamas relentlessly continues to attack and refuses such overtures. They don’t want peace with Israel or for the Palestinian people; never have. The goal is the destruction of Israel and the Jews…period.
Here is an old article demonstrating that the goal of destroying Israel never changes…
“The issues at stake in this long-standing conflict between Arabs – Palestinian and otherwise – and
Israel are extraordinarily large and complex. Recent news media headlines capture some of the absurdities: "Hamas says accord reached, but won't stop rocket attacks" and "
Israel and Hamas agreed to end all hostilities, but unclear how enforced."
Israel has the right and responsibility – after seven years and over 11,000 missile attacks from Gaza before this most recent barrage – to do what it takes to stop the horrific attacks against its people. At the same time, we all grieve for the Palestinian people and pray earnestly that they will be able soon to
find and follow leaders who truly protect the lives of the Palestinian people, and their future.
In such an on-going conflict, it is much too easy for people to look for moral equivalency – to want to assume that the issues on both sides are too ancient, too continuous, too common and too complex for clear moral contrast. Perhaps it hurts too much to take the full measure of real
malignant evil in our contemporary world. But the presumption of moral equivalence would be foolish moral numbness (or dumbness?) on anyone's part.”
Hamas and Israel: Who Respects Palestinian Lives More? [Excerpts] As the Bible teaches us, we should love all our "neighbors," including all people, everywhere, with special attention in th
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And Israel did not steal the land…
“Instead, they
purchased land. Acquiring property
dunam by dunam, farm by farm, house by house, lay at the heart of the Zionist enterprise until 1948. The
Jewish National Fund, founded in 1901 to buy land in Palestine "to assist in the foundation of a new community of free Jews engaged in active and peaceable industry," was the key institution – and not the Haganah, the clandestine defense organization founded in 1920.
Zionists also focused on the
rehabilitation of what was barren and considered unusable. They not only made the desert bloom but drained swamps, cleared water channels, reclaimed wasteland,
forested bare hills, cleared rocks, and removed salt from the soil. Jewish reclamation and sanitation work precipitously reduced the number of disease-related deaths.”
“This history contradicts the
Palestinian accountthat "Zionist gangs stole Palestine and expelled its people" which led to a catastrophe "unprecedented in history" (according to a PA 12th-grade textbook) or that Zionists "plundered the Palestinian land and national interests, and established their state upon the ruins of the Palestinian Arab people" (writes a columnist in the PA's daily). International organizations, newspaper editorials, and faculty petitions reiterate this falsehood worldwide.
Israelis should hold their heads high and point out that the building of their country was based on the least violent and most civilized movement of any people in history. Gangs did not steal Palestine; merchants purchased Israel.”
Zionists stole Palestinian land: that's the mantra both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas teach their children and propagate in their media. This claim has vast importance, as Palestinian Media Watch explains: "Presenting the creation of the [Israeli]
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