The (Palestinian) right to death.
Shall we cut straight to the chase this time? As we know, Hamas stores its rockets in schools, hospitals, mosques, ambulances and so on and so forth. There is a certain amount of truth to these claims: UNRWA has twice in recent days discovered rockets hidden in vacant schools, something it has condemned in the strongest possible terms. The key word there though is vacant schools; regardless of what Hamas and the other militant groups are, they do not store rockets in places where civilians are sheltering from the violence.
When the IDF then shells an UNRWA school where hundreds of people were taking refuge, it knows precisely what it's doing. When they say terrorists store weapons in all the places mentioned above they're making clear they reserve the right to attack anywhere; it's a defence in advance. When those shells kill 15 innocents, all the IDF can do is try and divert some of the blame, even it involves telling easily disprovable lies. According to the IDF, there was a humanitarian window between 10:00 and 14:00 today when those sheltering in the school could have left to try and find somewhere else to escape the violence. Instead, Hamas apparently prevented them from leaving. This is news to UNRWA, who say they tried to coordinate exactly such a window and it was never granted. In any case, Hamas continued firing from Beit Hanoun. The IDF was responding to that fire. By shelling a school they had the exact coordinates of, where they knew there were hundreds of civilians who wanted to leave but couldn't.
Something about this story doesn't add up. To be precise, this is the sort of story a five-year-old would find difficult to believe. It leads you to one conclusion, and one conclusion only: the IDF doesn't care what it hits in Gaza, and it will always blame Hamas regardless of how bad it looks. This is the exact sort of behaviour we condemn when it's the Syrian military doing it. They're the same kind of lies we find outrageous when they're told by the Russians. Yet still our representatives will keep repeating Israel has the right to defend itself. The Palestinians, as said before, only have the right to die.
When the IDF then shells an UNRWA school where hundreds of people were taking refuge, it knows precisely what it's doing. When they say terrorists store weapons in all the places mentioned above they're making clear they reserve the right to attack anywhere; it's a defence in advance. When those shells kill 15 innocents, all the IDF can do is try and divert some of the blame, even it involves telling easily disprovable lies. According to the IDF, there was a humanitarian window between 10:00 and 14:00 today when those sheltering in the school could have left to try and find somewhere else to escape the violence. Instead, Hamas apparently prevented them from leaving. This is news to UNRWA, who say they tried to coordinate exactly such a window and it was never granted. In any case, Hamas continued firing from Beit Hanoun. The IDF was responding to that fire. By shelling a school they had the exact coordinates of, where they knew there were hundreds of civilians who wanted to leave but couldn't.
Something about this story doesn't add up. To be precise, this is the sort of story a five-year-old would find difficult to believe. It leads you to one conclusion, and one conclusion only: the IDF doesn't care what it hits in Gaza, and it will always blame Hamas regardless of how bad it looks. This is the exact sort of behaviour we condemn when it's the Syrian military doing it. They're the same kind of lies we find outrageous when they're told by the Russians. Yet still our representatives will keep repeating Israel has the right to defend itself. The Palestinians, as said before, only have the right to die.
Labels: Gaza, GazaUnderAttack, Hamas, IDF, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, politics
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