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Friday, October 26, 2012

Peculiar Reasoning; reasoning peculiar to Anti-Semitism

While the Canada Boat to Gaza participants wax lyrical about their determination to deliver humanitarian aid to the persecuted Gazans oppressed by the dastardly Israelis who have few practical options other than to have a military presence to prevent the Gaza government of Hamas from obtaining weapons from Iran and Syria, Hamas busies itself rocketing southern Israel.

Somehow the fact that rockets and mortar shells are fired across the border into Israel as the obvious precipitating cause of the blockade they descry as illegitimate and abusive is of little concern to these humanitarians. Nor is the fact that the Hamas governing body of Gaza is itself responsible for the blockade that the would-be blockade-busters are so determined to break.

Hamas, in its zeal to confront and violently overturn the presence of a Jewish state in the midst of a Muslim Arab geography has openly stated its charter's dedication to the annihilation of Israel. Somehow that's forgiveable and entirely reasonable, while taking care to protect one's citizens by making it difficult to bring in weapons to accomplish that goal is counter to human rights.

Hamas has more than ample support in the Arab world. From Egypt, where its founding group, the Muslim Brotherhood, is now in power, and from Turkey which considers Hamas to represent a nicely "responsible" government. And now that the emir of Qatar has visited and given his blessing to Hamas, promising to hand over up to a half-billion dollars in oil money for reconstruction of Gaza in exchange for having a militia ready to do its will, they're off to the races.

And here they were so concerned that their funding and arms conduit had been cut off because of Sunni Hamas's unwillingness to continue supporting the Shia-Alawite-Baath regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Which decision had the expected effect of Iran, already suffering its own financial crisis due to the bite of international sanctions for its nuclear program, withdrawing its financial support to Hamas.

The amazing thing in all of this is that the international community, inclusive of many within the European Union, and including Norway and Denmark and Sweden, and North American trade unions and liberal-left academics somehow find it appealing to support Hamas and Gaza as the underdogs as opposed to a sole, small nation appearing as an island of democracy within a sea of oppressive oil tyrants.

The rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel's southern border towns has traumatized Israelis, but then that's their problem, the world isn't all that interested. The damage done to homes and to farms is irrelevant, evidently. In excess of 80 deadly projectiles were fired over the border, wounding three Thai labourers on an Israeli farm. Schools were shuttered, people bunkered down in makeshift cement shelters, and shrapnel fell indiscriminately.

But the defenders of Gazan Palestinians and their Hamas taskmasters continue their slanderous accusations about how Israel's occupation of Gaza - not the Hamas occupation of Gaza - is harming the well being of Palestinians.

Labels: Canada, Communication, Conflict, Democracy, Gaza, Hamas, Human Rights, Islamism, Israel