Gillard supports Israel

[Black Orchid]

I'M angry. You see, as Australians are going about their daily routines, in Israel more than one million people are in bomb shelters, seeking cover from a hail of rockets being rained down by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza.

A further 3 1/2 million live directly in the line of fire.

During the past four days, at least 700 rockets have fired from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. That's almost eight rockets an hour. Three Israelis have already been killed and dozens more have been hurt, many of them seriously.

I write this article, knowing that any given moment, I may be forced to run for shelter. Fifteen seconds are how much time we have to find safety. Fifteen seconds.

Just to put things in context: 4.5 million Israelis live directly within the line of Hamas fire. That is more than half the population here. In Australian terms that's about the entire population of Sydney or Melbourne.

This year alone, at least 1500 rockets have now been fired on Israel from Gaza, with about 12,000 fired in the past 12 years. There is just no end in sight.

In response to this incessant terror, last week Israel began Operation Pillar of Defence, starting with the elimination of Ahmed Jabari, one of the leaders of Hamas. Jabari was an arch-terrorist directly responsible for planning, orchestrating and personally ordering countless terrorist bombings, rocket attacks and suicide operations, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent Israelis.

But here is why I'm angry.

I'm angry that the world notices only when Israel undertakes its most basic sovereign right to defend its citizens. Can you imagine if even one rocket were fired on Washington, London, Moscow or Sydney? No nation on earth can, or should, tolerate such attacks on its people.

I'm angry that while the UN never hesitates to pass the umpteenth resolution blindly condemning Israel, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was unable to unequivocally condemn the Palestinian rocket attacks without implying a moral equivalence between Israel taking defensive action against the terror attacks and Hamas deliberately targeting innocent civilians.

And now, the UN General Assembly is getting ready to vote on upgrading the Palestinians' status at the UN later this month. Perhaps it ought to be asking itself the following question instead: what kind of Palestinian entity is it voting for - one that seeks peace with Israel or one that indiscriminately fires rocket after rocket at millions of innocent civilians?

I'm angry that there are those who continue to call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against the Jewish State, such as those in the Greens Party, but are silent in the face of Palestinian terror.

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I'm angry that mainstream newspapers such as The Sydney Morning Herald, lead their stories about the rocket attacks with such headlines as "Israel warns it will intensify conflict after Gaza strikes", and not "Terrorists in Gaza intensify conflict after raining down 700 rockets in four days against 4.5 million Israelis".

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[Aussie]

I'll bet the family of that Hammas Leader Israel assassinated are angry too. Tough shit, Sherlock. If you punch someone in the nose, he is going to hit back. That is what happens when States go to "War."

Civilians get in harm's way.

[Black Orchid]

Civilians get in harm's way.

Thanks for your input Captain Obvious

[Aussie]

Civilians get in harm's way.

Thanks for your input Captain Obvious

No problem BO



(That expression, 'Captain Obvious'............rings a bell Someone else here likes to use it too

Can't remember who)

[Black Orchid]

I am sure many people use the term, Aussie. My kids use it also but (surprise surprise) they don't post here nor am I them

[Black Orchid]

Which other migrants had a history of violence and blowing up civilians?

Israel does just that - blows up lots of innocent civilians and children - as long as they're not their own.

That wouldn't happen as often as it does if the Palestinians didn't have a penchant for hiding their weapons cache in schools, mosques, hospitals, homes etc. When private or community property is used for military purposes it automatically becomes a military target. Something only the Arabs do