HAARETZ Article
In the July war Hamas fired 3,356 rockets at Israel, some of them short range, some long range, some medium range. But the most dangerous rocket Hamas launched in Operation Protective Edge was the 3,357th one. This invisible rocket was intercontinental. It struck hard at Israel’s most important support bases in five continents. It reached every home in America, caused huge damage in every European state and brought its deadly cargo even to South America, East Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
Iron Dome failed to intercept the secret rocket. The air force did not succeed in diverting the destructive arrow head from its course. Neither the government nor the army knew how to block the blow that this rocket delivered to Israel’s strategic home front. They allowed the terrible sights of dead children, bombarded schools and shattered mosques to hand Hamas the biggest achievement – creeping delegitimization of Israel.
We should not be confused. Israel was and remains in the right in this awful war. Hamas is a fascist organization, which attacked the neighboring democracy without justification, in a criminal attempt to kill Israeli citizens and cause the deaths of Palestinian residents. Israel did its best not to be embroiled in the violent struggle and to reduce to a minimum the harm to innocents during its course. So there’s no room for moral comparison between the two entities – one of them is moral and enlightened, the other tyrannical and murderous.
But, regrettably, Hamas planned the campaign and prepared for it better than Israel in certain ways. It developed a malicious strategy intended to make Israel implement its terrifying power against itself. Since Israel had no decisive intelligence, it acted as Hamas expected it to act – it implemented its fire power in a way that harmed its international image.
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Looks like the Israeli's don't seem to get it. Their focus appears very narrow and self-centred.
Israeli newspaper opinion seems to be that Hamas somehow waged a really good PR campaign, discrediting Israel internationally ... and even 'made' Israel 'implement' it's state of the art arsenal against itself, in some grand scheme to turn the tide against Israel (or something like that).
But it wasn't merely the evidence of the killings, injuries and damage done; it's the knowledge that the Palestinians are on the losing end, in every respect, in relation to Israel (with the blessings and support of the US and US allies) -- as they have been for decades -- and that the Palestinians really are open air prisoners of an occupation.
Anyway, that's how I see it.
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