The illegitimate complaints against Israel are well known, that Israel is allegedly criminally responsible for the collateral damage causing fewer than 2,000 fatalities in less than a month of intensive fighting in one of the most concentrated areas of civilians in the world in the course of Israel's attempts to root out the source of the projectiles, missiles, mortars, and/or rockets sent against Israel's civilians, while the projectiles, missiles, mortars, and rockets intentionally aimed by Hamas in intended genocide and murder of millions of civilians in Israel (including hundreds of thousands of Arabs collaterally and most ironically) in the course of a number of years are somehow not to be mentioned.
There is, however, one legitimate complaint to be made against Israel, to wit, that instead of ONLY leafleting the civilians of Gaza warning them how to avoid injury, at the risk of increasing casualties to Israeli soldiers fighting a war for survival and in self defense, Israel is NOT also adequately leafleting liberal enclaves and universities, informing the people in them of the following:
The Israel Defense Forces have uncovered Hamas military combat manuals informing its people that Israelis try to avoid hurting civilians, even collaterally, so that Hamas advises its people to place civilians in harm's way and weapons and their shooters into and adjacent to civilian buildings to cause them to be blown up so that public sympathies will be generated in favor of Hamas and against Israel (this alone deserves a leaflet in itself and should end any defense of Hamas).
Hamas intentionally has a policy of dragging dead people to bombed out locations to fraudulently frame the Israelis by making it seem as if there was more collateral damage than there actually was, let alone alleging that the Israelis intentionally tried to kill civilians.
Israelis are fighting a more humanitarian war than any other entity in the history of the world, using high tech as never before to protect its own civilians (including the protection of hundreds of thousands of Arabs) by means of the Iron Dome, and protecting civilians controlled and betrayed by Hamas as follows.
Israel has an unprecedented humanitarian 4-part policy of trying to protect the Arabs placed in harm's way by Hamas in that Israelis (1) leaflet civilians to leave buildings that are about to be targeted; (2) telephone civilians in advance to warn them; (3) text civilians in advance to warn them, and (4) knock on their doors, so to speak, by unarmed taps on their rooftops, to warn them.
Hamas has taken concrete donated and sold to Gaza for building hospitals and schools and other constructive purposes and diverted it to build tunnels for storing weapons, harboring terrorists, and boring into and under Israel to enable Gazans to sneak into Israel and kidnap, torture, and murder civilians.
Hamas first blindfolded the people who excavated the tunnels and then murdered and enslaves many of them, including children, as a token of appreciation, if they were merely suspected of having any ties to Israel, not even as spies but just as civilians who may happen to have owned or carried anything made in or passing through Israel. (Of course this was done as a security measure, but somehow this comes across as a measure of barbarity rather than security.)
Hamas soldiers often do not wear uniforms so that it will appear that Israel killed a higher percentage of civilians than actually killed in battle.
If Hamas soldiers do wear uniforms, they often wear stolen or counterfeit Israeli army uniforms, to deceive Israelis to let their guard down.
If Arab uniforms are worn, it is by Arab children indoctrinated to glorify war and to hate Israelis falsely accused of atrocities as well as falsely accused of using Arab blood in baking Passover matzot, which of course is against Jewish law and practice, and always has been.
Hamas deceives the Israelis and the Red Crescent by commandeering and disguising vehicles marked as ambulances for the conduct of military activities, thereby causing possible death to any civilians in ambulances actually originally used as such when Israelis discover their converted actual use.
Hamas only allows journalists to see dead Arab bodies (sometimes recycled and moved); not live Arab soldiers.
Many, purportedly hundreds, of the civilian fatalities blamed on Israel are actually due to misfired projectiles, missiles, mortars, and/or rockets launched by Hamas.
Hamas intimidates many if not all journalists whose lives would be in jeopardy were they to send honest and balanced reports to their employers.
Hamas claims that Israel's blockade has prevented Gazans from access to materials needed for survival, after using concrete and building materials for its tunnels of stealth and death, in which they hide weapons while also hiding the fact that Israelis allow tons of humanitarian supplies through its humanitarian blockade.
Israel is treating injured Gazan citizens in Israeli hospitals, because Israel has nothing against innocent Arab civilians, and even tries to avoid such casualties, as described above, unlike Hamas.
By contrast, during World War II, how many American, British, and French hospitals or trauma units treated German and Japanese victims of American fire?
During World War II, when England carpet bombed the German cities of Berlin and Dresden, how many advance phone calls did they deliver? Text messages (which of course would have been impossible)? Or even telegraph wires?
To minimize the loss of life by hastening an end to World War II, America dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. How many advance phone calls did they make? Text messages (which of course would have been impossible)? Telegraph wires? How many of the victims were NOT civilians?
In World War II, fought primarily in Europe, how many American civilians died vs. carpet bombed Germans? Were Americans condemned by freedom loving people because their soldiers died and most of their civilians were spared?
Above all, Israel's stated goal is peace and the preservation of life, even the life of Arabs not placed by the Hamas as human shields; the stated goal of Hamas is the genocide of the Jewish people and the murder of all Jews.
SOME BACKGROUND HISTORY
Archeology clearly supports Israel's claims to the Temple having been built on what is now the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem;
Arabs intentionally built mosques on top of the area where parts of the temple once stood, in an attempt to hide the evidence.
Jerusalem is mentioned hundreds of times in the Jewish Bible, while only once in passing in the Koran.
Mohammed never even visited Jerusalem, even for one second.
There was never a country called Palestine in the area encompassed by modern day Israel.
The United Nations divided a small strip of land in 1947, and Israel accepted its half.
Five Arab armies told the Arab inhabitants in the Israeli half to leave temporarily while the five Arab armies sought to invade Israel, which was not armed by any nation prior to and during its War for Independence, so the Arabs were expelled by their own people; not by the Israelis who sought to live with them side by side, as many did for generations before the Egyptian-born Yasir Arafat was a gleam in his parents' eyes. This of course was before Arafat and his associates fed lies to people who trusted him instead of feeding them food, and thereby converted many of them into hostile terrorists and suicide bombers.
There are over 20 Arab countries in the region, all of which have refused to absorb the Palestinian refugees to solve the Palestinian "problem."
Jews were expelled from many of these Arab countries, and are not even allowed to visit many of them, let alone live there, but have all been absorbed into the tiny country of Israel.
Jews were not permitted to visit the Temple Mount when it was controlled by the Jordanians from 1948 to 1967; now Israel does not even allow Israelis at many of its holy sites very often in order not to hurt the sensitivity of Arabs who are not satisfied with their own shrines but claim Jewish shrines as well.
Arabs are given so many rights in Israel that they even serve in the Israeli Parliament, where they are permitted to make statements that would be considered treasonous in many other democracies, let alone in Arab countries.
Israel expelled its own Jews from Gaza in order to give the Gazans full control; in return, the Gazans destroyed the lucrative high-tech greenhouses left behind by the Israelis, spent a large percentage of their money on weapons and tunnels, and thanked the Israelis with thousands of rockets in the intervening years against civilian Israelis, including Arabs.
THESE ARE SIMPLE FACTS. ISRAEL AND ALL PEOPLE WHO VALUE THE TRUTH AND DECENCY ARE TO BE FAULTED FOR FAILURE TO DISSEMINATE THEM IN LEAFLETS IN ALL LIBERAL ENCLAVES AND UNIVERSITIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND ON THE INTERNET.
Israelis are sophisticated enough to build iron domes; why can't they at least use the power of the pen and the computer chip more effectively? Or at least more widely? Many supporters of Israel go to rallies that are ignored by the mainstream media and by almost all of the people who have a negative view of Israel and the way it has conducted the war in Gaza. It would be far more effective to get naïve "liberals" and "progressives" to simply become informed as to the facts. The truth is on the side of the Israelis. If the Israelis and their supporters fail to get the message across effectively enough, they risk winning the present battle in Gaza but losing the War of Public Opinion, and losing access to supplies of protective and pre-emptive weapons, which are needed in order to end the current war in a decisive and positive way and in order to have enough support to fight future wars and protect Israeli citizens -- and eventually American citizens as well (it is only a matter of time) from future onslaughts of missiles, if our prayers for peace will not be joined by enough people and answered favorably.
