Word: israelity
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...Cambridge City Council passed a resolution on Monday calling for “an immediate end to all attacks on civilians on both sides” in the latest outpouring of violence between Israel and Palestine in the Gaza Strip...
...reads as follows: “[Peace] initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement.” In other words, any sort of peaceful solution in which Israel continues to exist is simply unacceptable to Hamas. Faced with this stark reality—that, until Israel is wiped off the map, Hamas will not stop its campaign of terror—Israel is absolutely justified in its defensive actions against Hamas...
...While critics have charged that Israel continues to instigate the admittedly tragic violence in the region, they ignore the numerous efforts that the Israeli government has made to end the conflict. In the past decade, Israel has offered to withdraw from 97 percent of the West Bank, and has also unilaterally removed its forces from the Gaza Strip. But apparently even these well-intentioned efforts are not enough for the radical Hamas leadership, which has repeatedly refused to recognize Israel as a state and has called for its complete destruction. As Israel is—understandably—not going...
...Many people have protested Israel’s actions, arguing that its military response has been disproportionate. With all due respect, they are dead wrong. Would it be preferable if Israel fired several rockets into homes in Gaza every day without giving warning, like Hamas? After all, Hamas has not demonstrated much concern for Israeli civilians; in fact, it has repeatedly and indiscriminately fired rockets at Israeli settlements on undisputedly Israeli territory. If Israel were to do the same to Gaza—which it most assuredly has not—then it would be condemned in nearly every corner...
...Hamas shown much compassion for its own people, for it often uses civilians—whom it knows Israel will go to great lengths not to kill—in order to carry out its missions. In 2006, armed Hamas terrorists barricaded themselves inside a mosque. Palestinian women gathered outside, and the terrorists managed to dress themselves in the women’s garb and escape, knowing that Israel would not fire at a group of people without knowing who among the group was the real target...