Gov. Rick Perry
Politico Magazine
8/1/2014
It’s difficult to imagine the terror that the people of Israel must live with every day. For Israelis, at any given moment a missile might be detected, rocketing toward a residential neighborhood; a bomber might detonate him or herself in a crowded public place; and terrorists sent by Hamas might infiltrate their borders through secret tunnels to kidnap or kill their children.
Thousands of miles away, it might be convenient to criticize Israel for having the temerity to defend itself against these murderous terrorist attacks…
…To begin, anyone tempted to suggest Israel has used a disproportionate amount of force to defend itself needs to remember the origins of this latest round of violence. It’s Hamas that continued to launch rockets, despite Israel’s willingness to discuss and abide by multiple cease-fires. It’s Hamas that uses Palestinians as human shields to protect its leaders and its arsenals, and to preserve its extensive system of tunnels. And it’s Hamas that would, if given the opportunity, take the life of every Israeli within range of its thousands of rockets.
Israel needs more than our passive support…
Read the entire editorial at Politico.com
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On Sunday, TheBlaze reported on the Israeli media’s widespread disdain for Secretary of State John Kerry, who was called “pathetic” and “embarrassing” and whose apparently naive approach to the peace process brought comparisons to “an alien, who just disembarked his spaceship in the Mideast.”
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