Israeli Army Offers Analogy to British Government

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The Israeli Defence Force yesterday issued a mocked-up picture of the Houses of Parliament with missiles raining down on the building, alongside the words: “What would you do?” It is a good question. Indeed, as the IDF continues its offensive in Gaza, causing huge suffering among the civilian population of the benighted Palestinian enclave, it is one that Israel’s critics need to answer – but can’t.
The Labour MP Andy Slaughter, secretary of the Britain-Palestine All-Party Parliamentary Group, called the montage a piece of “crass propaganda” that showed the Israelis “have lost all sense of perspective”. Propaganda it may be; but it is easy to throw brickbats from the peace and security of Westminster. In similar circumstances, what would we do to protect our families and territory?
We should also remember how this particular set of circumstances developed. The kidnapping and murder of three Israeli students last month was blamed on Hamas, and the tit-for-tat killing of an Arab boy ratcheted up tensions even further on the West Bank. Yet the Israeli government arrested the suspects and was intending to bring them to justice. At this point, missiles were fired from inside Gaza, initially by Islamic Jihad but then with the backing of Hamas. Hundreds fell on Israeli towns close to the border and some made it as far as Tel Aviv. The fact that Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile defence shield proved effective in minimising casualties does not mitigate the enormity of the attack on its soil.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10980627/A-bloody-conflict-in-Gaza-but-Israel-is-not-to-blame.html

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