My Two Cents | The left is wrong on Gaza
My friends on the far left are wrong, plain wrong, on the recent Israel-Gaza flareup.
Israel, bottom line, has a right to defend itself. And as long as Hamas is using Gaza as cover for its aggressive activities, Israel has a right to pre-emptively defend itself.
It bothers me more than a little bit that the far left is taking up the cause of Hamas in this one.
We cannot allow Hamas to goad Israel into a fight that we then shout them the Israelis down from.
You ask me, and the only peace that can ring eternally in the Middle East has to include a strong Israel.
Anything less than that is a threat to the West and a threat to the United States long term.
- Column by Chris Graham
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I agree ! The militant Hamas contingent has lobbed rockets into Israel for months before the Israelis reached the ‘enough is enough’ stage. The accusation that Israel is using a disproportionate military response is typical of the inability of Hamas to comprehend military protectionism is not related to Quid pro Quo. Ask yourself what would be your response in the same situation?
There is no proportionate response to the acts of groups like Hamas. Their very approach is unconventional and decentralized by design. They don’t wear uniforms and stand in formation and offer an inviting target. And to them engaging in what appear to conventional thinkers as sporadic activities is part of their genius. They get their way militarily and politically this way – launching their strikes, hiding amongst the civilian population afterward, then engaging the Western media as an additional layer of defense. And we fall for it every time.
I think that today, when we’re only 39 short years from our own generation’s “100 Years War” we should recognize that if people really wanted peace in the Middle East, we’d have it by now. The killing, warfare, terrorism and border spats is what defines the peoples and countries in the Middle East. Peace would only rob them of their identities. It’d be like pulling a deep-sea fish up from the depths. The lack of pressure would kill them.
In the year 2048 we should all be able to celebrate and salute 100 continual and uninterrupted years of combat, disputes, extremism, and border clashes…mostly in the name of one religion or another. Such dependability is tough to find today. It’s nice to find something that doesn’t change.