Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Israel and the Hamas of Gaza: This could be going much, much better for everybody!

A large percentage of the people dying in Gaza yesterday, today and tomorrow are not Hamas militia.
It's that simple in spite of all other surrounding complexities involved with this situation.
For certain no one has been able to ascertain what percentage of the population of Gaza is militia or is responsible for lobbing rockets, (as impotent and ineffective as this still very real threat may be) into Israel for years now.
One does not use a sledge hammer to swat mosquitoes. It's hell on the windows, portraits and drapes. One does not strafe, invade, occupy, fire precision missiles or bombs into East LA, New York, Chicago or other US cities in an effort to stop the Cryps or the Bloods from mugging, maiming or murdering the citizenry or the authorities.
No one brought tanks and missiles into play in Europe to rain death upon any city to combat the organized anarchists (sheer irony, that!) who year after year congregate to disrupt the G-8 Summit held by any of the hosting membership nations of France, the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy or Canada.
For all anyone knows for certain...the ratio of gang members in any other industrialized country and the percentage of Hamas militants in Gaza are very similar. The problem is and continues to be that Hamas militants are not the sole target of Israeli's superior and 4 billion per year western supplied military might. And these rising collateral damages, in a 12 mile by 12 mile bombed out ghetto over the years is reaching perfectly criminal proportions that others who have been tried for war crimes could only have dreamed of in their wildest twisted machinations.
Other means are available to Israel to find, isolate and eliminate whatever small factions of the population Hamas represents, should Israel truly care to do so.
Israel has historically proven to possess one of the most effective secret service organizations in the free world. They have successfully infiltrated whomever they wished to as far back as the Mossad can be remembered. Israel has infiltrated hostile organizations from the terrorists at the Olympics in Germany to capturing Nazi sympathizers 60 years after the fact in Argentina.
Finding and eliminating whatever small percentage of the Gaza population was responsible for firing rockets at Israel could have been accomplished long ago if a genuine modicum of recognition for the sanctity of civilian life were actually in practice today by those who claim to be living and practicing it already.
We are led to believe that Israel is better than the murderous people fighting against them. I want to believe this as much as my culture insists that I do. And it is known for a fact that Israel has the technology, finances and intelligence to show the world exactly that of themselves.
When will we get to see some tangible evidence of this rather than the slow destruction of the Palestinian state while Hamas, no matter how small and ineffective is allowed to remain an ongoing excuse for the extended occupation, further conflict and the death of civilians who are being held captive within a 12 mile by 12 mile compound by a military who has been time proven to be superior on the one side to the comparatively small and ill equipped gang of thugs called Hamas militiamen in Gaza on the other?

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