The author rejects the "popular headlines" that state the fact that Israel responds to the continuous provocation, in the form of rockets, from Gaza. Yet clearly it is not Israeli violence that triggers Gaza response, it’s the other way around. A reminder that Israel pulled out of Gaza nearly a decade ago, only to be faced with an endless barrage of rockets from the territory following the pull-out. Is that not provocation?

He also chooses to ignore the numerous cease fire offers recently made to Hamas, only to be rebuffed.

The human shield factor he casually dismisses is the insistence of Hamas to place weapons and fighters within civilian installations, schools, mosques and apartment buildings. Rockets have already been discovered by UNRWA in schools several times this month. Are you trying to tell me there is no better place in Gaza to store one's rockets than the local schoolyard?

While I do not place any politician above doing whatever it takes to win the next elections, the Israeli elections are not due for another 3 years. It does not seem plausible that winning the elections in 3 years' time was driving the decision to respond to the Hamas violence this month. A lot can change in 3 years.

It seems that the author has never read the Hamas charter. 'Peaceful' Hamas was established in the 1980s with the expressed aim of replacing Israel (not just Palestine) with an Islamic state. Suicide bombings on civilian targets were the bread and butter of Hamas since the early 1990s. 'Tunnelled vision'? Not so.

And finally, the comment by Ayelet Shaked, which, according to her, was mis-translated and taken out of context, pales in comparison to the "poison being brewed" in the Palestinian territories on a daily basis through religious sermons, children's programs and every other aspect of life in Palestine. The locals are indoctrinated and trained to hate Jews, kill them whenever they get the chance. Clips from Palestinian TV demonstrating this systematic teaching of hatred can be easily found on the Internet.

the Hypocracy: You are admitting to taking pleasure in watching little children die as quoted by you - you don't need a response, you need a cell for the criminally insane!

Obviously you are a Hamas supporter. Do you think it's OK to spend all the Aid money Hamas gets for it's people on Rockets, Mortars, Suicide vests, Weapons & Tunnels? I guess you do.

Do you think it OK to have Special Holiday Camps & have TV programmes for Children telling them to kill the Infidel, in Kindergarten!? I guess you do.

Do the Israeli have these camps & TV Programmes for their children? NO.

Enjoy the Video's. O Hypocrite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwtKsF7I5Nk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrW4_uxJvHQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08XsKJYcvfk

Some of my best mates drink kosher alcohol. lol You do make a fool of yourself here SPQR.

Killarney
Go for it. I have a tall blue eyed blond headed Aryan amazon for a girlfriend. She drinks through guilt, but we both wish the world good.

JAyB you know in this country what you just said could see you hauled before our courts. It is discrimination and incitement at it's worst. But of course you are in Israel where it is okay.

And mate it is the Jewish religion which is about 5000 years old and yes they have been at that vindictive behaviour for that whole time.
Islam only dates from about 500 AD. ie After the death of our Christian god. And came out of one of the lost Israelite tribes. As usual inaccurate with your facts or just plain dumb. Ask yourself.

And Israel is utterly dependent on the US for it's existence. Mate the US tire of overseas wars fairly quickly. Keep up the war on GAZA and you'll find that out soon enough. What then mate? Nuke everyone?

elizabeth4

'A passionate plea by Caroline Glick, in which she describes the awful twisting of the truth in western media and political circles.'

I put up with this woman's shaky-voiced rage and teeth gnashing until the point about how 'Israelis didn't get their country back after 2,000 years of exile only to have it destroyed'. Excuse me, but whose country did the Israelis 'get their country back' FROM?

Most of her diatribe was not at the terrorists (who are, by standard imperial-speak definition, anyone Israel beats up on and dispossesses and terrorises and bombs and shoots and invades and throws into prison for looking sideways at an Israeli checkpoint).

No, the woman's rage was firmly directed at the US for daring (as she sees it) to falter in its steadfast commitment to Israeli expansionism by daring even to think about negotiating with Hamas about a ceasfire.

Ms Slick ... I mean Glick ... Weren't the 29 standing ovations in Congress to Bibi Yahoo's magnanimous appearance before them enough to know that the US's grovelling loyalty to Israeli expansionism is not going anywhere anytime soon?

Avw

'[The author] also chooses to ignore the numerous cease fire offers recently made to Hamas, only to be rebuffed.'

And were you paying attention Avw? Did you happen to hear the condition they kept making?

Let me remind you ... to lift the SIEGE of Gaza.

You know ... that medieval siege of Gaza, that Israel has been enforcing for nearly 10 years - within a wider expansionist ghetto-isation of the entire Palestinian population!

No. In Israel's boundless US-backed arrogance, the idea that these wretched, dispossessed, vanquished, isolated and terrorised people would dare to make an actual demand, based on their dignity and rights as human beings, is too much for Israel to bear.

How dare they! No getting down on their knees and begging for Israel to stop hitting them? No desperate promises of 'We'll be good and stop firing rockets, Mr Netanyahu, Sir'.

Don't these wretched un-people know their place?

Jewish donors prominent in presidential campaign contributions.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-donors-prominent-in-presidential-campaign-contributions/
Sheldon Adelson’s culture of hate
If anyone said about Jews what the American Jewish billionaire says about Palestinians, he’d be considered a Jew-hater in the same league as Farrakhan and Ahmadinejad.
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.583402