While Hamas continues to launch rockets over Israel, it seems that Lebanon has joined in as well. Israel has more than one region of threat. The news is quite selective about the background of this conflict stating that the kidnapping of three Israeli teens and then the killing of a Palestinian teen is the catalyst of this current condition. This is simply not accurate, Gaza/Hamas has 10,000 rockets and this has been going on for a very long time. Israel has simply said enough and has taken a pro-active stance.
At the core of the rockets from Gaza is Iran and that is beyond dispute. When Lebanon steps in and does that same it strains resources and questions the United Nations. Why the UN, well UNIFIL has been charged with managing the border for years and has essentially failed at this mission to allow rockets to be launched.
When it comes to Gaza, it must be noted that Israel delivered advanced notice to the United Nations and to Hamas a mere fact that has been omitted by the pro-Hamas supporters that continue to blame Israel. Additionally, Israel while this conflict escalates still provides humanitarian care to residents of Gaza that includes power, medical resources, water and food, something that Israel has done all along. In case you question this, click here.
European leaders called PM Netanyahu offering support, endorsement and solidarity, but only out of embarrassment, did Barack Obama finally make a call but only to request moderation on behalf of Israel and that the United States would offer to broker a peace deal. Really? All peace talks lead by John Kerry have failed, why trust John Kerry?
In the meantime, Israel is under attack in increments of minutes, something that the United States should never allow to occur to an ally. This is a shameful policy posture for America.
Last week, Hamas fired hundreds of rockets and missiles at targets throughout Israel, including the nuclear reactor at Dimona. Two of the three M-75 missiles targeting Dimona missed the mark entirely, but one had to be brought down by Iron Dome, Israel’s antimissile shield. The U.N. considers an attack on a nuclear reactor an act of nuclear terrorism, which in this case might have taken a catastrophic toll on Israel’s population—as well as the Palestinians.
And now Obama is offering to play honest broker and negotiate a ceasefire between this terrorist group and our ally Israel. Why not? Just last month, the Obama administration helped usher Hamas into a Palestinian unity government. It’s not as if the White House didn’t know whom it was dealing with. Hamas hadn’t changed its stripes or its founding charter, which calls for unending war on Israel until the Jewish state is erased from the pages of history. Even as the administration was telling Jerusalem to give Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas a little time to work out all the kinks with his new unity government, Hamas was preparing for war.
While the administration was showing the PA how to get around U.S. laws that prevent American money from going to terrorists, Hamas was fortifying its tunnel network. It moves men and materiel and missiles through those tunnels, like the medium-range M-75s, and the long-range M-302s, designed by Iran and launched last week on trajectories that reached as far as Haifa, Israel’s northernmost major city.
Surely the White House had intelligence about the tunnels and the missiles, both of which were clear evidence of Hamas’s intentions—terror and war. The problem isn’t that the administration didn’t know, but that it didn’t care. The White House has its own peculiar ideas about the Middle East, which is why America’s regional standing, from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, is in shambles.
