Yael, I want to explain my position more completely. Hatred closes one's eyes, one's ears, and one's mouth. Those who hate us Jews and Israelis and those who have their own amoral agenda regarding us cannot be reasoned with. I teach Elie Wiesel's memoir Night every semester an a community college to a predominately Gentile student population. I am still amazed at how many students question the veracity of Mr. Wiesel's words. Davka, when I show Oprah Winfrey and Elie Wiesel's vidoe at Auschwitz, which includes documentary footage of the inconceivable--mountains of dead bodies, people preparing their own graves only to be shot immediately afterwards, the remains of babies--I have never heard one student deny what he or she has seen. This present generation is not one who adores reading; on the contrary, its reveres the screen: the Internet ,the TV, and the movie. Accordingly, the Shoah is unique in its planning and execution to excoriate the Jewish people from human memory; it appears that Hamas is not able to go to that extreme of the 'final solution' in terms of its planning and execution, yet it certainly has similar designs as are brazenly written in its charter. Israel is a Jewish state. Such an assertion is totally rejected by the Hamas-Fatah Palestinian leadership and perhaps 60-70% of the Palestinian people. The more empirical proof the world can receive regarding the true Palestinian intentions and actual acts concerning Israel, the more credible, reliable, and accurate the case against Hamas and Fatah. World opinion is important. Israel's position as a country under siege must be made as clearly and transparently as possible. Israel's image must be shown for its true self: a tiny country desiring peace with its neighbors in the middle of an enormous enemy who will do anything to bring about its demise.

 

 

Israel should cut off the water and electricity to the Gaza or draw a grid map of Gaza and destroy,with advance warning, one grid mark for each rocket fired until the attacks stop. No othe country in the world would put up with this.

 

 

Yoel, I can't imagine that anyone anywhere needs more proof that Hamas is a terrorist organization. Anyone who hasn't figured that out yet ... isn't going to. IMHO.

 

 

I find this video very revealing about the rocket-firing process. It appears that Hamas and its constituency will not cease the rocket firing unless Israel forces the issue. Cat-and-mouse games do not prevent the continuing firing of rockets against Israeli citizens. It appears that only a full-scale Israeli invasion to protect and defend Israeli citizenry will finally put a stop to the rockets. Maybe Fox has done a service to actually show the utter determination of Hamas to murder innocent civilians in their homes, shops, schools, hospitals as well as on their streets and roads. What civilized people would stoop to such amoral behavior instead of trying to make peace by stopping the terrorism? This video does not glorify the Palestinians murderers: it exposes their evil intentions for the world to see. Hamas is definitely intent on destroying the State of Israel at any means and any cost whatsoever. This video is evidence of such crimes against humanity. Furthermore, it proves that Hamas is a terrorist organization pure and simple.