Israel and Gaza by Gråulf

I have been watching the developing news from Israel and Gaza with my father-in-law, who is visiting from Israel. The news is abysmal, with headlines condemning Israel for killing innocent civilians and babies, that Israel’s response is out of proportion to the provocations, that Israel is guilty of an unprovoked attack on a defenseless population. When I had enough of the mealy-mouthed, mushy-headed reporting from the dominant news services, I signed on to the Canadian Free Press, and printed out a couple of their articles about the current Middle East situation for my father-in-law. Reading those articles restored his faith in humanity.

The liberal news failed to report that over 400 Hamas missiles has targeted Israel since Hamas refused to renew the truce 3 weeks ago, and that prior to that, Hamas fired several missiles into Israel every day off the truce. True to expectations, the UN was one of the first to condemn Israeli aggression against the poor Palestinians in Gaza, although the UN didn’t bother condemning Hamas rocket attacks on Israel prior to Israel’s attack on Gaza. Oh, but wait, they did condemn Israel for closing the border crossings from Gaza in response to Hamas shooting rockets into Israel. Some of the stories in Danish newspapers reported Muslim riots throughout Europe in support of Hamas, and explained the rioters are only burning cars and looting because they are upset by how Muslims are treated by Israelis.

It looks to me as if Israel only has one friend left in the world, and that is the U.S.A., and that may only last for another 6 weeks while George Bush is still President. After that it is anyone’s guess. Judging from Obama’s past record he will not be on the Israeli side of the Middle East conflict. But I promised myself not to criticize Obama until after he becomes president….

Gråulf.