Al Jazeera published an interesting opinion piece today by Mark LeVine, professor of Middle East history at the University of California, Irvine. Apparently Israelis have no right to defend themselves. I suppose their fate is to live under daily rocketing. A few nuggets. (Bolding mine)
The argument that this is a purely defensive war, launched only after Hamas broke a six-month ceasefire has been challenged, not just by observers in the know such as Jimmy Carter, the former US president who helped facilitate the truce, but by centre-right Israeli intelligence think tanks.
The claim that Hamas will never accept the existence of Israel has proved equally misinformed, as Hamas leaders explicitly announce their intention to do just that in the pages of the Los Angeles Times or to any international leader or journalist who will meet with them.
Exactly, they tell the Western media what it wants to hear, but when you watch what they tell their own people, and toddlers, the message is quite different and consistent.
And we have the standard crap about Israel as a "rogue" state and how it commits "war crimes." Actually, international law frees a state from having to watch out for civilian targets when the opposition purposefully uses civilians as human shields. So the IDF is actually free to strike targets where there are civilians, as long as the purpose is military, and it's Hamas that is committing the crimes.
And then we have the usual: this is only going to strengthen the hand of Hamas among the Palestinians. Well, there's a test underway for that. Meshall called for a renewed Intifada on the West Bank on Saturday. If LeVine is right, the West Bank Arabs will take to the streets. If they don't, Hamas's hand has been weakened.
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