Israel has the right and obligation to defend its citizens

Israel has the right and obligation to defend its citizens

It is a known fact that any country if attacked, its citizens kidnapped, rocket bombardment on a daily basis.

Has the right and obligation to defend its citizens.

It is sad that innocent civilians are hurt, but that is the cost of war and conflict.

Any government and its citizen who do not resist terrorism and let terrorist organization entrench themselves in their country and utilize those countries as bases of armed terrorism against a neighboring country. Eventually pays the price for permitting such actions.

If you gave the Arab population a vote in Israel and the west bank and Jerusalem the option to vote freely and without intimidation, you would find out, that they would rather be living under Israel’s government. They derive more stability more benefits, pensions, welfare, etc.

If the United States or any other government were to be attacked from across the border on a daily basis, have its citizens kidnapped, rockets launched at them on a daily basis, the citizens would demand that immediate military action be initiated with no holes barred, collateral damage or not. That is the fact of life.

Terrorist and those who support them do not know what peace is, they thrive on violence. That is the only way they control the masses. Any negotiations or compromise only strengthen those terrorist organizations.  When a poison strikes the human body, the only way to address it, is to remove it and destroy it completely.

That is the way the terrorist organizations should be treated.

As quoted in a statement “the only time of a chance for peace is, when the Arab mother would love her children more than she hates the Israelis.

The big mistake is that people are missing the economic benefits in Israel and its neighbors. That is if there was a true peace, you take the Israeli Technology and know how, add to it the Arab labor and natural resources – and you have an economic prosperity beyond your widest dreams.

YJ Draiman

“Like all sovereign nations, Israel has not only a right, but moreover, an obligation, to ensure the safety and security of her citizens.

“Let me be very clear. Israel’s response, her defense of her people, is in reaction to the hundreds of Hamas missiles that were targeted at Israeli citizens throughout the feeble ceasefire of 2008.

“Hamas’ leaders, choosing terror against Israel over the welfare of the Palestinian people, have chosen violence over peace.

“And while Hamas has been going out of its way to kill innocent Israelis, Israel has been going above and beyond – even putting itself at risk – to protect innocent Palestinians.

“Specifically, Israel drops leaflets and makes phone calls to targeted Palestinian areas to warn citizens they are in danger, even if this means losing the element of surprise and putting the lives of its own soldiers at risk.

“In contrast, Hamas deliberately attacks Israeli civilians and uses its own people as human shields.

“In addition, Israel has been facilitating the transfer of significant amounts of humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip; delivering 15,000 tons of aid over the past week and a half.

“Hamas, on the other hand, has stolen some of those humanitarian medical supplies from civilians to give to their gunmen.

COMMENTS

After Israeli withdrawal from Gaza there was no single Israeli attack on Gaza. Gazans were shooting rockets to Israeli cities and farms every single day. Then they attacked Israeli army post on a sovereign Israeli territory and killed soldiers. Now Palestinians keep firing those rockets, Palestinian sniper shoot a farmer working on the field in Israel. Every country in the world will defend itself if attacked - and so does Israel. If Palestinians want peace - just stop firing at your neighbors. It seems, though, that that don't want peace. They should blame themselves for all their troubles.