Half Time Pies
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' I'm against what Israel is doing in Gaza'.
.....'The State of Israel exists because the 'civilised' world including some influential Arabs refused to rescue Europe's Jews from Hitler when they could. The great powers were rightly guilty when they found out afterwards what they had allowed.
A (slightly) closer parallel, with what's going on in Gaza, look up what happened in the Syrian city of Hama in February 1982. The Muslim Brotherhood, in many ways similar to Hamas, had violently challenged the rule of Syrian President Hafez Assad. Hama, with 350,000 inhabitants, was identified by Assad as the HQ of the Brotherhood.
After warning that anyone who remained in Hama would be considered a rebel, the Syrian army bombed and shelled the city for 3 weeks. Death & torture squads were then unleashed. Estimates of the numbers killed range from 7,000 to 40,000.
By comparison with this, Israel's attack on Gaza looks positively effeminate.
But fashionable showbiz folk haver never heard of Hama.
Is it all right for Arabs to kill Arabs - and only bad when Israel does it?
Not my words, but The Mail On Sunday's
(furthermore, the Israeli's leaflet Gaza where they will strike. Hamas just fires weapons to Israel indiscriminantly)
Not your words but the words of one of the most right wing political writers published in by far the most right wing British newspaper.