January 6, 2009

by Aryeh Spero, Human Events, Jan. 5, 2009

The moment Israel began its war of defense against the missiles being fired at her citizens from Hamas launching pads in Gaza, the United Nations, the communist and dictatorship countries, the Europeans and the Arab/ Muslim states began their predictable condemnation of Israel. Though not as severe as those just mentioned, Pat Buchanan embarked on a journalistic blitz with the similar goal of stopping Israel from defeating its terrorist attackers and asking the upcoming Obama administration to declare it will not support Israel.

Buchanan (“Bush, Obama, and the Gaza Blitz”, 12/30/08, HUMAN EVENTS) questions “the wisdom of so savage a retribution for rockets that killed not one Israeli.” That, of course, is just wrong. At least 14 Israelis had been killed by Hamas rockets since 2001, and the Hamas attacks had intensified to more than sixty rockets per day just before Israel counter-attacked by airstrikes.

Had Israel’s interest been retribution, it could have quickly leveled all of Gaza. Instead, Israel first confined its attack to military and launching sites and the Hamas leadership engineering the rocket and suicide bomb attacks. (Continued reading this Article).