Speak the truth about Gaza and Israel
- by: Alyssa Freeman
- recipient: various news media (CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, BBC, The Guardian, The Independent)
Hamas is not interested in a two-state solution. They want all of Israel for themselves. If you look on the uniforms of the Palestinian team in the World Cup, you will see an outline of "Palestine" that is identical to an outline of Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. They say as much on their own website. They have trading cards that glorify suicide bombers and teach teach children how to become one. They deliberately fire rockets into civilian populations in direct ciolation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. They use their own citizens as human shields to hide behind and fire rockets form among their own civilian population (another Geneva Convention violation), and store weapons in the homes, schools, hospitals, and other businesses of ordinary Gazans (another Geneva Convention violation). They have publicly stated that they love death more than the Israelis love life.
Israel sends texts, makes phone calls, and drops leaflets warning of upcoming attacks. Do these sound like a race that's interested in genocide? In 2005, Israel withdrew from Gaza and forced their OWN citizens to leave - some times at gunpoint. Does that sound like something a nation interested in genocide would do? OR an apartheid state? In 2008, Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinians 98% of what they wanted - 95% of the West Bank, other land in exchange for the 5% Israel wanted, control over the Temple Mount, and various other things. The offer was rejected. Would Israel do this if they were interested in genocide?
Citizens of Israel - whether Christian, Arab, Druze, Jewish, or whatever - are guaranteed equal rights in the Israeli constitution. There has been an Israeli Arab who won Israel's version of the "Iron Chef" cooking competition. There has been an Israeli Arab "Miss Israel" beauty contest winner. There are even Arabs serving in Israel's parliament, the Knesset. When you report from the mid-east or whever you are located, please report the truth. Israel values life over death. Israel tries to AVOID civilian casualties. Hamas ENCOURAGES them. It's sad that anyone has to die, but their deaths of Gaza civilaisn are the fault of Hamas, not Israel. If you can not report the truth from within Gaza, then don't report from there. No other nation on Earth would be criticized for defending itself the way Israel has. Enough is enough.
Please report the news accurately from the Mid-East. Hamas has been using its own citizens as human shields, and has fired approximately 3000 missiles into Israel, at Israel's citizens. I don't see this reported on your networks.
The only reason the death toll is so much higher in Gaza than in Israel is because the Israeli government has invested in bomb shelters for its citizens, as well as the Iron Dome defense system, whereas Hamas has merely invested in weapons and digging tunnels to smuggle those weapons.
Finally, Hamas's charter - which is on their website - states that their goal is to exterminate all the Jews from Israel and take all the land for itself. Hamas is not interested in peace, nor are they interested in a two-state solution (though they have been in control of Gaza since 2007 - two years after Israel's disengagement). They seek only the destruction of every Jew in Israel. This needs to be reported. If you can not report this from Gaza because Hamas won't let you, that should tell you something. Report form Israel, instead.
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