When Reconstructing Gaza Has Its Origins In Historical Precedents

Submitted by Adina Kutnicki (Israel), Mar 3, 2009 at 12:25

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't any amount of funding-let only millions and billions-to a terrorist organization (and the last time I checked Hamas was designated as a terror group by Washington) against US law and international law? Isn't there a legal dictate, nullum crimera sine poena (no crime without punishment, & terror IS a crime) which law abiding nations are mandated to abide by?

It seems to me that two dangerous forces are converging, and they will ultimate impact on Israel's existence. First, the international community is reverting true to form, including Washington.

In the run up to the Holocaust, and during its active extermination phase, international leaders either sat passively, or actively obstructed rescue efforts. There is ample proof from John Loftus's well documented book, The Secret War Against The Jews, that the campaign for Jewish destruction was championed by the west's so called civilized leaders for many, many decades.

Further complicating Israeli security, and by extension the plight of world Jewry, is the mixed messages which the Israeli leadership gives to these leaders. Instead of responding with the full weight of their military when the missile attacks started eight ! years ago, they waited and waited...... To top off all their immoral confusion they have allowed truckloads of fuel, shekels and all manner of assistance to aid their genocidal foes. Pressure or no pressure, Israel's leaders have the sworn obligation to protect the lives of their citizens. For if they do not, they completely lose their mandate to govern. They can also say NO, NO, NO when matters of life and death are involved.

As for the other world leaders, they are satisfied with laying wreaths at places like Yad Vashem, and to opine tearfully over graveyards of dead Jews. Or, they will just build more Jewish memorial museums.

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