POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
This is an absolutely unbalanced editorial, reminding one of the kind of brain-dead stuff Marcus Gee used to pound out on the Middle East, rewrites of official Israeli press releases.
Who is doing the killing?
Who is depriving people of normal commerce?
Who arrogantly commits piracy on the high seas?
Who runs around stealing passports and murdering people?
Who holds 10,000 people in prison without proper legal procedure?
Who, after Hamas was elected in a clean election, immediately arrested members of the elected body?
Who, after Hamas was elected in a clean election, immediately threatened its leader with assassination?
Who keeps Gaza surrounded by automated radar-operated gun towers which blast anything which moves within a couple of thousand yards?
When was the last time Hamas killed an Israeli politician?
When was the last time Hamas arrested members of Israel's legislature?
When was the last time Hamas invaded Israel?
Israel's behavior is the only serious obstacle here.
Every thinking person knows you must talk to your opponents to have peace, yet who refuses to talk to Hamas?
Hamas may not like Israel, but it is not, and never could be, in a position to seriously threaten Israel. To say anything else is paranoid rubbish.
Israel wants the people of Gaza reduced to groveling submission, without even the right to self-determination, and, indeed, it really prefers to make them so miserable they leave their homes.
Hamas does not rule in the West Bank. Do we see peace there? No, every week Israelis steal more homes or farms and continue to keep millions under constant threat and abuse.
