More than 600 rockets fired into Israel last night alone. All fired from a genocidal terrorist group. No other nation would tolerate that. Israel could flatten Gaza in an afternoon if it so chose. So spare me the false claims of "disproportionate use of force"
https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1392537311825567747
Palestinians have been offered a state on at least six occasions. They've declined every single one. Israel even withdrew unilaterally from Gaza. The response? The election of a terror group that calls for Israel's destruction and which *immediately* began launching rockets
Each of which is fired at civilians while using human shields--a double war crime. The problem--crystal clear and undeniable when one looks at history and the statement of Palestinian leaders themselves--is simple: Hamas--& Fatah--consider all of Israel to be an "occupation."
Jewish political and social equality in the Jewish people's ancestral homeland *has always been the problem* indeed, its why anti-Jewish terrorism predates Israel's 1948 recreation, which itself happened after Arabs turned down a Palestinian state and chose war instead
Indeed, in 1920 in Jerusalem Arabs massacred Jews while proclaiming that Faisal--a Hashemite from Arabia than ruling from Damascus--was their king. mosaicmagazine.com/observation/is…
Put simply: Arab anti-Jewish violence predates Palestinian Arab nationalism. And to the extent that the latter has formed over the last century it is constructed on a steadfast commitment to denying Jewish self-determination.
But back to the use of force. Israel takes steps to limit casualties and be surgical in its strikes that no other Western democracy facing similar threats takes. The former U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs acknowledged as much in 2014 timesofisrael.com/top-us-general…
Israel, of course, gets no credit for its restraint--or for the numerous occasions that it has both accepted and made offers for a Palestinian state.And that, like the expectation that Israel should take missiles and not respond, is a double standard that speaks to something else
As I noted in 2019 in @Algemeiner , Israel has taken steps that the U.S. itself couldn't--or, perhaps, didn't--when fighting Islamist terrorists. algemeiner.com/2019/05/09/the…
And for those highlighting Jerusalem, I have the following rejoinder: the Palestinians have been offered a state with east Jerusalem as its capital on several occasions. tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
Offers for a Palestinian state--which has never existed--have been made since the 1930s. All rejected, out of hand. algemeiner.com/2019/06/28/the…
Not, of course, that the media has an interest in highlighting those. They just ignore them. blogs.timesofisrael.com/abbas-rejects-…
The history of violence and rejectionism goes deep. In 1929, Arab clerics and politicians provoked riots across Palestine by accusing Jews of plotting to take control of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque. This was 20 years before Israel's recreation...nationalreview.com/2019/08/hebron…
As I noted in @dcexaminer Last week Abbas--the recipient of foreign aid and titles predicated on a faux reputation as a "peacemaker"--echoed Husseini. Abbas knew what he was doing and what he was inciting washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-pa…
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