Rockets Keep Coming From Gaza, Not That The World Notices

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rocket-gazaThe following is Wall Street Journal editorial: As the U.S. Presidential campaign races to the finish, the Middle East continues to boil. Not that the world seems to notice. Last week, Palestinian terrorists operating from the Gaza Strip fired 21 rockets and mortars into Israel. That followed a three-day, 77-shell barrage, in which two civilians were seriously injured and thousands of people were forced into bomb shelters. More than 800 rockets and mortars have been fired into Israel from the Strip in 2012.

If this incoming fire were landing in Texas from Mexico-or in southern Spain from North Africa-it would be a major story. Instead, the world has largely ignored the attacks while obsessing over a possible Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran is a principal arms supplier to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which operates out of Gaza and is responsible for many of the recent attacks. Iran’s war against Israel, in other words, has long been underway.

Gaza has been governed for over five years by Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has done little to restrain the fire. In July, former Hamas leader Khaled Meshal met Egypt’s new President in Cairo. “We have entered a new era in Palestine’s relationship with Egypt,” Meshal said after the meeting. “We were happy with what we heard from President Mohamed Morsi and his vision to handle all these issues.”

Israel has been fortunate to suffer few fatalities so far from the Gaza attacks. Some of that owes to Israel’s deployment of the Iron Dome air defense system, which recently intercepted eight rockets aimed at larger Israeli cities. But no defensive system is perfect and at some point a Palestinian barrage may take a large toll in lives, forcing Israel to respond in a major way.

When that happens, Israel will be urged to show “restraint” by the usual diplomatic suspects. We’re writing this as a reminder of how much restraint Israel has already shown.

Source: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

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2 COMMENTS

  1. It is a shame, I have heard very little and really nothing at all on the media here in the USA on this topic. I hope that all is well in Israel of course and it would be good if our concerns were met by the interests of the world at large. Either they do not care, do not know or simply hate us. But really I think really that they just do not know. Get the right publicity on this item and do a 60 minutes story or at least tap into the media and I think that there will be awareness. How many have died in the last year from this bombardment? That would be a publishable statistic. Name not only the rockets that are falling but describe the damage. Get into the details.

  2. Of course the world doesn’t notice! Israel hasn’t struck back! They only notice that! Monkey Moon has one way vision!!!

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