Fair is Fair
Yes, but it seems one can never scream it loudly enough to be heard over the clamour of blame. Louise Arbour, representing a truly discredited United Nations group is going out of her way to assure Palestinians that the world has not forgotten their plight. Good grief, their neighbours have also not forgotten their plight.
Since it impinges so directly on their own well-being. Pluck any Israeli off the street and ask them if they would not rather live in peace with their neighbours than in constant fear of attack. With rare exceptions everyone, man, woman and child will respond fervently that they dream in technicolour of peace, suffer black-and-white nightmares of war.
Yes, they believe the Palestinians deserve their own state alongside that of Israel. Yes, unfortunately, a Palestinian majority has voted in as their parliamentary representation a militant Islamist group that refuses to recognize the legitimacy and presence in the Middle East of the State of Israel. In other words, no side-by-side statehood for Hamas; rather the embrace of the entire region as a Palestinian state and goodbye Israel.
Ms. Arbour, so nice of you to drop by. When you were in Beit Hanoun giving warm support to the beleaguered villagers there, did you remember to ask them why they support the terrorists who dwell among them, who use their convenient presence as shields among whom they feel comfortable in launching deadly rocket attacks against Israel? Oh dear, you forgot.
Ms. Arbour, could you kindly see your way clear to ask the children of Sderot how they feel about daily bombardments? It might be an eye-opener. Oops, it might not be. Your interests don't lie there? Pity, such a shame. I'll take the liberty of informing you myself.
When Kassam rockets hit areas within Israel and successfully injure Israelis, Hamas and Islamic Jihad fall all over themselves competing for recognition as the source of the attack, and they each promise, along with militant Fatah to continue attacking the settlement of Sderot. Alas, the Palestinian Authority cannot see its way clear to challenging these attacks. That all right with you?
On Sunday shrapnel from one of the rockets hit one man causing injuries; on Thursday a 17-year-old was seriously wounded by rocket shrapnel to his stomach; the day before a Muslim woman was killed by a Kassam rocket; a young man had his legs amputated by the same rocket.
In Sderot only half of the city's children attend school; they suffer from anxiety and post-traumatic stress symptoms while struggling with their classwork. Children who begin the day at school are picked up by their parents when the Kassam rocket attacks begin; others kept at home if rockets have hit that morning.
Madam, if you are as interested in human rights violations as you claim to be, be fair, look at all the evidence, view the entire situation, make your observations on the basis of neutrality and fairness.
We're waiting with bated breath.
Since it impinges so directly on their own well-being. Pluck any Israeli off the street and ask them if they would not rather live in peace with their neighbours than in constant fear of attack. With rare exceptions everyone, man, woman and child will respond fervently that they dream in technicolour of peace, suffer black-and-white nightmares of war.
Yes, they believe the Palestinians deserve their own state alongside that of Israel. Yes, unfortunately, a Palestinian majority has voted in as their parliamentary representation a militant Islamist group that refuses to recognize the legitimacy and presence in the Middle East of the State of Israel. In other words, no side-by-side statehood for Hamas; rather the embrace of the entire region as a Palestinian state and goodbye Israel.
Ms. Arbour, so nice of you to drop by. When you were in Beit Hanoun giving warm support to the beleaguered villagers there, did you remember to ask them why they support the terrorists who dwell among them, who use their convenient presence as shields among whom they feel comfortable in launching deadly rocket attacks against Israel? Oh dear, you forgot.
Ms. Arbour, could you kindly see your way clear to ask the children of Sderot how they feel about daily bombardments? It might be an eye-opener. Oops, it might not be. Your interests don't lie there? Pity, such a shame. I'll take the liberty of informing you myself.
When Kassam rockets hit areas within Israel and successfully injure Israelis, Hamas and Islamic Jihad fall all over themselves competing for recognition as the source of the attack, and they each promise, along with militant Fatah to continue attacking the settlement of Sderot. Alas, the Palestinian Authority cannot see its way clear to challenging these attacks. That all right with you?
On Sunday shrapnel from one of the rockets hit one man causing injuries; on Thursday a 17-year-old was seriously wounded by rocket shrapnel to his stomach; the day before a Muslim woman was killed by a Kassam rocket; a young man had his legs amputated by the same rocket.
In Sderot only half of the city's children attend school; they suffer from anxiety and post-traumatic stress symptoms while struggling with their classwork. Children who begin the day at school are picked up by their parents when the Kassam rocket attacks begin; others kept at home if rockets have hit that morning.
Madam, if you are as interested in human rights violations as you claim to be, be fair, look at all the evidence, view the entire situation, make your observations on the basis of neutrality and fairness.
We're waiting with bated breath.
posted by Pieface @ 6:10 PM
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