Letter to the Sunday Times – November 9th 2006
Dear Sir,
As an Israeli, I found the tragedy in Gaza
devastating, and the Israeli Government’s offer to treat the wounded in Israeli
hospitals, the minimum we can do to ease the dreadful pain. Indeed, it is a
tragic mistake, with dreadful consequences. But unfortunately TV stations shoe
the pictures of the wounded children, not the root of the problem. The Hammas
uses residential areas [yes, residential areas] from where to shoot
rockets to Israel proper, this after Israel vacated Gaza.
This reflecting Hammas’s policy, mirrored alia
in a statement by Razi Hammad: - Israel is to be wiped out from the map”.
1000[!] Kassam missiles were shot at residential areas in pre 1967 Israel from
Beith Hanun after Israel vacated Gaza. Just as the Hizbullah used residential
places from where it shot Haifa.
So as an Israeli let me tell you, if you go to
sleep with a Kassam do not be surprised not to be awake the next morning. US
and UK forces were fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq devastating innocent
people. The UN forces in Bosnia harmed so many civilians in this cursed part of
Europe. This is not Israeli policy. Israel vacated Gaza so the Palestinians can
have safe rule, develop the lives of the Palestinians in this poorest of places
in the Middle East so they can have better lives. But if in lieu of fighting
poverty they try to kill citizens in Ashkelon and Shderot, then, yes, Israel
will retaliate. And yes, there will be mistakes. And yes, innocent people,
tragically might get killed, and yes it is an appalling sight, and yes it is
Hammas’s fault, because they use the children as shields, they use houses in
Gaza from where to shoot at Israel.
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| Israeli Children Taking Cover from a Hammas Missile |
The world – including Israel – should weep for
the innocent, but the world should condemn and fight Hammas. This is a
terrorist organization who will expose many Palestinians to grave risks so then
can kill Jews, sometimes as Shahids, and sometimes replacing the ''commanders'' who hide behind the skirts of women.
Zalli Jaffe.
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