After about a week of Israeli air attacks on Gaza, the Israeli army has now began its ground operation. Hundreds of armed vehicles and tanks have crossed into Gaza, manned by thousands of Israeli soldiers. Despite worldwide protests against Israel's actions, the Israeli government has insisted that it will continue with their attacks so long as Hamas continues to fire rockets into Israel. Not only has Hamas continued firing rockets to show Israel that they will not stop, but they have even threatened, in an almost daring manner, for Israel to launch its ground invasion by having their officials say that if Isreal goes ahead with it, "Palestinian children would be picking over the ruins of Israeli tanks and the body parts of Israeli soldiers". This is a full out war, and neither side is backing down, that is for sure.
Although it is horrifying to see a country like Israel with such a powerful military kill hundreds of Palestinians, many of whom are civilians, I still do not feel that Israel is doing anything wrong. Hamas, the group its people elected to political power in Gaza, is the one calling the shots. When they stop attacks on Israel, Israel will stop the attacks on them. Until then, Hamas is asking for more destruction to its people and its land.
Defence Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, had this to say about the ground campaign against Hamas, "our aim is to force Hamas to stop its hostile activities against Israel and Israelis from Gaza, and to bring about a significant change in the situation in the southern part of Israel". In other words, Israel is defending its people, and it has the right to do so. President-elect Barack Obama, while visiting Israel during his campaign, said "If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that. I would expect Israelis to do the same things. This is what the Israelis are doing." If Hamas does not stop launching rockets, I believe there is a chance that in 2009 we might be seeing the end of Hamas.
2 comments:
violence will only breed more violence. The palestinian children will only grow up to have more agression towards Israelis for their attacks on Gaza.
Israel attacking Gaza is like a boxer fighting a school girl, and the school girl is dying a slow painful death. would we ever allow mike tyson to fight little sarah parker? didn't think so, Israel needs to pull out NOW!
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