UN Human Rights Report On Gaza: A Moral Travesty

"Is there anything serious in the real world that Israel would do to stop the onslaught of rockets against its civilian population that would be deemed legitimate by the international community?

If one examines the choices that Israel faces when under rocket attack -- and make no mistake these Hamas attacks long preceded any Israeli blockage and are directly connected to the Hamas ideology embodied in its charter to destroy the Jewish State – it becomes clear that nothing Israel would do would not be condemned. Invading by ground forces is condemned. Launching air strikes is condemned, since inevitably, because Hamas embeds itself in crowded urban areas. Blockading the area is condemned.

What it amounts to is that Israel is therefore supposed to live with a situation where a party committed to its destruction would be able to choose when and where it can attack and over time, would be able to accumulate far more lethal rockets...

Nothing shows the bankruptcy of this U.N. approach than the fact that all the years that Hamas was launching rockets into Israel, nothing on the international scene was said or done to stop them..."