http://www.ajc.com/print/content/printedition/2009/01/01/lettsed.html
During the past several years, the Israelis have forced 1.5 million people in Gaza to go without food, medical care, heating fuel, electricity, clean water and facilities and infrastructure necessary to life or even a half-way decent standard of living. In response to these human rights violations, Hamas fires primitive rockets into southern Israel that always land in open fields. Up to Israel’s latest attack, these rockets have never killed one Israeli.
The U.S. blames Hamas for breaking the latest cease-fire in Gaza when, in fact, it was the Israelis who conducted an air strike last month killing six Palestinians. It was Israel who was the first to break the cease-fire, not Hamas. Why don’t we hear about this from the State Department or from the media? The Israelis are masters when it comes to provoking its enemies to justify the use of its superior weapons to inflict disproportionate retaliation. They are also propaganda experts.
In the world according to U.S. media, and from top U.S. officials, the high moral ground in the Middle East belongs to Israel’s government, even when it slaughters 300 Palestinians.
JAMES J. DAVID
James J. David of Marietta is a retired brigadier general who served on active duty in the Middle East.
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