Powering Hamas
"Attorney General Mazuz said the plan to reduce power to Gaza needed further scrutiny because of the possible impact on the population."
Reuters, Oct. 29, 2007
President George W Bush last week accused Iran of assisting terrorism by supplying Hamas and Hezbullah, known terrorist organizations. But Hamas gets its electricity and fuel, not from Iran, but from Israel! Without these sources of power, Hamas could not function as a terrorist group. By that token, Israel could be justly accused of facilitating terrorism against itself by supplying energy to Gaza, the base of Hamas.
Although nominally part of the Palestine Authority, Gaza has been effectively dominated by Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Organization, since June of 2007. Unlike Fatah, Hamas openly vows to destroy Israel. Moreover, rockets are fired from northern Gaza into Israel every day, causing terror, damage, injuries, and even death. Each rocket attack is an act of war. Although Hamas soldiers are not firing these rockets, Hamas does nothing to stop those who do.
The government of any territory is responsible for attacks launched from its land, so Hamas bears full responsibility for the rocket attacks, no matter what group actually fires them. Although Israel has periodically bombed launching sites and conducted military operations in northern Gaza to kill or capture the attackers, until now the Jewish State has continued to supply fuel and electricity to Gaza. It is hard to recall any other country that has continued to supply an entity with which it is at war.
The European Union (EU) has warned Israel against imposing "collective punishment" on Gazans (Reuters). The trouble is that collective punishment is the only kind of response that has any chance of pressuring Hamas to halt the rockets. What would any EU country do if it were assaulted by rockets across its border?
Life in Gaza is pretty miserable, and lack of electricity will make it a lot more miserable. But if the people are miserable enough, they just may convince their leaders to keep the peace with Israel. If the Government of Israel is serious about pacifying the Gaza border, it should cut off all electricity and fuel until the attacks stop for good.
Reuters, Oct. 29, 2007
President George W Bush last week accused Iran of assisting terrorism by supplying Hamas and Hezbullah, known terrorist organizations. But Hamas gets its electricity and fuel, not from Iran, but from Israel! Without these sources of power, Hamas could not function as a terrorist group. By that token, Israel could be justly accused of facilitating terrorism against itself by supplying energy to Gaza, the base of Hamas.
Although nominally part of the Palestine Authority, Gaza has been effectively dominated by Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Organization, since June of 2007. Unlike Fatah, Hamas openly vows to destroy Israel. Moreover, rockets are fired from northern Gaza into Israel every day, causing terror, damage, injuries, and even death. Each rocket attack is an act of war. Although Hamas soldiers are not firing these rockets, Hamas does nothing to stop those who do.
The government of any territory is responsible for attacks launched from its land, so Hamas bears full responsibility for the rocket attacks, no matter what group actually fires them. Although Israel has periodically bombed launching sites and conducted military operations in northern Gaza to kill or capture the attackers, until now the Jewish State has continued to supply fuel and electricity to Gaza. It is hard to recall any other country that has continued to supply an entity with which it is at war.
The European Union (EU) has warned Israel against imposing "collective punishment" on Gazans (Reuters). The trouble is that collective punishment is the only kind of response that has any chance of pressuring Hamas to halt the rockets. What would any EU country do if it were assaulted by rockets across its border?
Life in Gaza is pretty miserable, and lack of electricity will make it a lot more miserable. But if the people are miserable enough, they just may convince their leaders to keep the peace with Israel. If the Government of Israel is serious about pacifying the Gaza border, it should cut off all electricity and fuel until the attacks stop for good.
posted by Gerald S Glazer at 9:37 AM
1 Comments:
It is "collective" guilt when a state and its people allow their land to be used by military groups to attack a neighboring country.
It is "collective" guilt when a state supports or allows its citizens to attack a foreign country from that states land.
"Collective" guilt requires "collective punishment".
In 1939 the Nazi Party declared war in Europe. The Nazi party did not represent all Germans only about 5-10% of the German people. Yet we attacked the entire nation.
When Poncho Villa used Mexico as a base for its military operations against the USA, the USA went into Mexico and destroyed Poncho Villa and no one complained. It was recognized by everyone including Mexico that USA had the right to defend itself.
When USSR put missles in Cuba, just threatening not attacking the USA, the USA went to the brink of war to get those missles out of Cuba.
The Israeli judiciary and Israeli government needs to go to psychiatrist as they are exhibiting signs of insanity. They are acting in a totally self destructive manner and if any human being acted similarly he/she would be institutionalized and heavily medicated.
If someone in your neighbor's house started to shoot at your house, what would you do? A normal person would call the police to take care of it. If there were no police, a normal person would try to stop the shooting themselves. A normal person could do this by arming themselves and shooting back or attacking the house. A normal person would not say to themsleves that perhaps there is an innocent person in that house so I will not attack it. However, if the attacked person were extremely humane he might think that perhaps there is one innocent person in the house and they did not want to hurt that person so he instead would try to build a wall to prevent any harm in their house. (Israel has already built a wall between itself and Gaza already).If this did not work a normal extremely humane person would try to inflict some discomfort on the neighbor's house to get them to stop and this might include cutting off electricity and water. ONLY a psychotic person would allow thmselves to be shot at every day from their neighbor's house and do nothing.
The fact that Israel has not already bombed Gaza to oblivion is proof that it is the most human country on earth. Would the USA have done nothing if Castro would have sent missles into Florida? Al Queda sent planes into its cities and the USA went thousands of miles away to invade two countries.
Israel is insane and needs to be institutionalized for its own safety.
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