These words are written a short distance away from the most northern
hit, so far, of the Hamas missiles, which are methodically aimed only at civilian population in
Israel. You may refer to this message as "A View from the Target Zone".
For eight years, approximately 5000 rockets have been sent deliberately into Israeli population
centers, by the Hamas terrorists. The rockets are extremely inaccurate. The good news is that they
often hit an empty field. The bad news is that, when they do hit buildings and people, they kill,
maim and destroy. It is a very ugly game of Iranian Roulette.
But the most significant fact is that the undisputed purpose of the rockets is to kill civilians in a
random manner. Since they miss entire towns, they could not possibly be aimed at military or
strategic targets. No claim is made by the Hamas of anything other than a deliberate attempt to
kill civilians within Israel. The world knows about the rockets but rarely mentions that they are
aimed only at the civilian population and at nothing else.
The Hamas consistently refers to Israel itself as "the occupied territory". It refers to any town in
Israel as an "illegal settlement". Its declared aim is to destroy Israel. It has proudly endorsed,
initiated and sent numerous suicide murderers into Israeli buses, supermarkets, shopping malls,
weddings and other crowded places. It explicitly states that it will continue to do so. Since
Israel succeeded in preventing the suicide murders by a combination of the protective wall, other
defensive measures and good intelligence penetration, the missiles became the preferred way of
killing Israeli civilians.
Hamas is declared to be a terrorist organization, not only by Israel, not only by the US, but also
by the European Union, who is not suspected of being pro-Israeli. This is the same European
Union that refuses to label the Hizbullah as a terror organization, but repeatedly and officially
declares the Hamas as such. Hamas is fully funded and largely controlled by Iran, a country
openly and totally committed to the destruction of Israel, while continuing to enjoy trade with
much of the western world.
The Hamas media, and especially its independent TV station, carry daily children programs
(including programs for kindergarten age) depicting the Jews (and not only the Israelis) as pigs,
dogs, scum of the earth and creatures that must be killed. One of these program features a rabbit
which eats Jews. There is plenty of documentation of these programs, including animations and
programs with child presenters. Major western news media never report on this phenomenon,
while some of them publish op-ed pieces by declared Hamas leaders.
The favorite hour of launching the daily Hamas rockets during the last eight years was 7:45 in the
morning, but only on weekdays. Why? Because this is the time in which the streets are full of
Israeli children, on their way to school. No one wants to waste rockets when no children are in the
streets, during the weekend.
Eight year old children in the Israeli town of Sderot, a few miles from the Gaza border, live, since
they were born, with these rockets. They know no other life. When the alarm sounds, they have
exactly 15 seconds to reach an improvised cover. Eighth grade children, age 13, have never gone
to school, since kindergarten, without the real threat of having a rocket hit them on the way.
Their parents have never felt safe about sending their child to school. It is very difficult for
anyone living in a normal safe place, to imagine what it means to send your child to school, every
single day, for eight years, with the fear that he or she may never reach school because of a
missile attack, aimed at killing the children. The world seems to accept this.
Israel withdrew from the Gaza strip in 2005. Not one Israeli soldier or civilian remained there.
Everything was ready for the people of Gaza to start a new life and economic development. There
was no blockade, border crossings were open. Instead came increased shooting of rockets into
Israel, a Hamas coup, throwing Fatah Palestinians from roofs of buildings to their death and
torturing their own people in their prisons. It is regrettable that Israel did
not react with full force to the very first rockets after its withdrawal from Gaza, but there was
always the na?ve illusion that perhaps talks, discussions, verbal threats and temporary closings of
the border crossings, might do the job. WhatIsrael did not take into account was that Iran , directly
or through Hizbullah, was paying the Hamas operatives, per rocket launch.
Through the elaborate system of tunnels dug by the Hamas under the Gaza-Egypt border,
thousands of tons of explosives and larger and better Iranian missiles have been continuously
smuggled into Gaza. The Israeli Government stupidly agreed in mid 2008, to a six-month cease
fire. During the "mock cease fire", many rockets were launched into Israel by a variety of real and
fictitious Palestinian organizations, with a clear Hamas sub-license, pretending that the Hamas
itself is observing the cease fire.
In the meantime, the Hamas could successfully prepare for the next round. It acquired Iranian
rockets that were equally inaccurate, but carried larger warheads, had a longer range and
contained numerous tiny steel balls, in order to increase the civilian casualties over a larger radius.
Again, the inaccuracy of the rockets guaranteed that they could only be sent into random civilian
targets. But now the rocket range covered a population of close to one million
Israelis and the damage is much more significant.
Larger and better rockets were now stored in mosques, schools, hospitals and normal apartment
buildings. Mortars were added to the menu of shooting at Israeli civilians. Schools financed by the
UN were used in order to launch mortar shells and missiles. The greenhouses left intact by the
withdrawing Israelis were destroyed, their metal parts were converted to primitive rockets and
their locations became favorite launching areas. Launching rockets at the
Israeli population brings a much better income than growing strawberries and flowers in
greenhouses.
Whenever Israel opened the border crossings to supply Gaza with basic food and fuel, the Hamas
was attempting to blow up the crossing points. Providing too much food and fuel would disturb
the flourishing black market totally controlled by the Hamas chiefs and their allies.
It would also spoil their propaganda machine. Most supplies were transported through the tunnels from Egypt,
under Hamas auspices, creating a lucrative business for the Hamas "families".
The absurd notion that Israel must supply fuel, electricity, food and medication to an outlaw
region controlled by a terror organization, became a permanent mantra in the western media.
Israel was supposed to provide the Hamas with raw materials for the rockets launched at its
citizens, with electricity for the machinery used to produce these rockets, with food for its
designers and manufacturers, and with building materials in order to construct
safe bunkers for the Hamas leadership under schools and hospitals. On one hand the Hamas was
claimed to have been the legitimate democratically elected government of the majority of the
population and on the other hand the population, that allegedly elected these thugs, was declared
innocent and suffering. The inconsistency was never pointed out.
Once the border crossing was closed, as a result of the repeated Hamas attacks, the international
game of a "humanitarian crisis" was successfully played, with full cooperation of the western
media. Famous incidents included photographs of poor Gaza residents with candles and
(allegedly) no electricity, staged behind black curtains in full outside daylight (visible through
cracks between the curtains). Most western media happily used these fake pictures and, when the
lie was exposed, never mentioned it. Hamas leaders were
never lacking food, fuel, electricity, luxurious private vehicles and all amenities of well to do
black market profiteers.
Very few western journalists remained in Gaza, after several were kidnapped by the Hamas.
Almost all reports to western media come from Palestinians, who are either sympathetic to
Hamas, or afraid of it, or openly active in its ranks, or all of the above. The reader of the New
York Times, or the viewer of a European TV network, never notices who provides him or her
with the news. All photographs, both stills and videos, are provided by Palestinian operatives,
who would stop at nothing in order to support the propaganda machine. On western TV, Hamas
rockets are launched only from empty fields, never from a school or a crowded neighborhood, as
it is in real life.
United Nation sources in Gaza are often quoted, condemning Israel for the "Humanitarian
Crisis". But these sources are normally employees of UNRWA, the UN agency that, since 1948,
makes every effort to perpetuate the "refugee" status of the great-grandchildren of the 1948
refugees. The grandparents of these "refugees" were displaced 60 years ago by a distance of a 20
minute drive and were never resettled because they were receiving free food from the UN. The
UN objected vehemently to any attempt at settling the
refugees, their children and grandchildren. The few real refugees, who remain alive today, and
are 80 year old, were 18 year old when they were displaced. All the terrorists are third or fourth
generation "refugees" held as such, courtesy of UNRWA.
These UN organizations employ, by their own admission, numerous active Hamas members.
When the latter make statements on behalf of "UN sources in Gaza", the Palestinian journalists
never mention to us who these "UN sources" are. The public gets the impression that these are
truthful objective sources, while being fed with standard Hamas lies.
Western media never disclose to us that the jobs of these people depend on perpetuating the misery
of the so-called "refugees".
A Headmaster and science teacher of one of the UNRWA schools in Gaza
was a leader in the rocket industry of the Islamic Jihad, a satellite terror organization in Gaza,
collaborating with Hamas. The UN strongly denied the Israeli accusations that they are employing
such a person, until the man was killed by Israel and was eulogized by his friends as a leader of
the Islamic Jihad and a designer of rockets.
When Israeli truck drivers were bringing the humanitarian supplies to Gaza, during the period of
Hamas rocket fire, they were frequently attacked by Hamas. At least one Israeli truck driver,
supplying the Palestinians, was deliberately murdered. No protest was launched by the UN. But,
when during the current fighting, an Arab truck driver, employed by the UN, was accidentally
killed, the UN became indignant and stopped all its humanitarian" activity in protest, to the tune
of loud denunciations from all "UN sources".
The Israeli defense forces monitor every detail of this fantasyland by using airborne drones and
by a very successful intelligence penetration of the Hamas ranks. They know which apartment
building serves as a missile storage place, the addresses and phone numbers of Hamas leaders,
which school serves as an ammunition depot, etc. When the six-month "ceasefire" ended, in mid
December, Hamas refused to continue it, launching 90 rockets into Israeli towns and villages in
one day . In retrospect, this has prevented a much more
dangerous future situation. Had there been an additional "ceasefire", Hamas would have acquired
rockets covering all of Israel and possibly much more accurate Iranian missiles. The Iranian
supply line of explosives and weapons, together with the flourishing business of smuggled goods,
went through the tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border with efficiency and regularity. Had such
efficiency been attempted in improving the lives of the Palestinians
in Gaza, the entire Middle East would have been an entirely different place. But, coupled with the
weapon smuggling, it was essential to create the charade of the "Humanitarian Crisis". During the
current operation, when the Israeli Air Force wants to blow up a house which serves as a missile
storage, Israel phones every family in the house and gives them 15 minutes to evacuate. The
Hamas is then sending the women and children to the roof of the building in order to prevent the
Israeli aircraft from making the kill. Israel has now developed a tiny arrow-like missile which can
be sent to the corner of the roof, making a loud noise and harming no one, in order to scare away
the women and children on the roof, before the real bomb destroys the missile collection or the
explosive storage place. Often, the women and children used by the Hamas as a human shield,
escape and the house is then blown up, with a spectacular secondary explosion of the stored
missiles or other war materials. On other occasions, a Hamas person gets to the roof and prevents
the women and children from leaving. In those cases, the operation is not completed by the Israeli
Air Force, in order to spare civilian lives, at the risk of having the rockets launched into Israel on
the following day.
Never in history, has any country made such an enormous effort to avoid civilian casualties, in
fighting against murderers who target only civilians and never anything else. No one in Kosovo,
Serbia, Georgia or Iraq, was offered such a courtesy by the bombing and attacking powers. This
fact is never mentioned by the western media.
Many of the heroic commanders of the Hamas are hiding in the central
hospital of Gaza, in an elaborate network of bunkers, trusting that Israel will not attack the
hospital. Hamas spokesmen issue proclamations from the maternity ward of the same hospital,
knowing that Israel will not hit them there. Ironically, of all non-Israelis, the Hamas leaders are
the only ones who know for sure that Israel never deliberately hurts civilians. They exploit this
fact. The rest of the world buys the Hamas lies and blames Israel for hurting civilians.
Repeated claims of "humanitarian crisis" are made from the same hospital. The doctors in charge
never tell us that the hiding leaders of the Hamas are using them and the patients as human
shields. Whether the doctors are only scared or are deliberate accomplices, we do not know.
Probably some are active Hamas members and others are justifiably scared to speak up. We never
hear a word from the International Red Cross regarding the use of the hospitals as the
headquarters of terror leaders.
One of the most horrible "impartial" testimonies on the humanitarian situation, in the hospital, is
delivered repeatedly to the western media by a "Norwegian Doctor" serving there. The man is
well known from his 2001 interviews with Norwegian TV, in which he explicitly supported and
justified the 9/11 attacks. Needless to say, none of the networks who bring us the righteous doctor,
mention this. He is just "A Norwegian Doctor" attending to the wounded.
Palestinian ambulances are routinely used to move terrorists around. This has also been the
Palestinian practice in the West Bank during the terror wave in 2001-2002. An ambulance is an
ideal method of transporting a suicide murderer across check points. In the unlucky case that the
criminal is caught, there is at least a good press photograph of the ugly Israelis attacking or
stopping an ambulance. It is a win-win situation. If an ambulance full of healthy Hamas terrorists
and explosives is hit from the air, the pictures are even better for the western media and for Al
Jazeera.
Several Hamas leaders are moving around Gaza surrounded by children,
and often holding a child on their arms. There are well documented cases in which Hamas
terrorists were pulling reluctant children by their ears to accompany them when they move from
one building to another. None of this is mentioned by the western media.
Several Mosques, which were used as ammunition dumps, were destroyed
by Israel. In every one of these cases, the air photographs showed a primary explosion, from the
air missile or bomb, and a much bigger secondary explosion, from the stored missiles or other
explosives in the mosque. The secondary explosion is an absolute clear proof of what was hidden
at the mosque. The normal beautiful carpets in a mosque would not create a secondary explosion.
Western media have these videos, but rarely show them or mention their existence.
But the same western media repeatedly show the pictures of injured or dead children, some of
whom were indeed accidentally injured or killed by the Israeli attacks on military and terror
targets, and some are obviously fake pictures with red paint smeared on children faces. At least in
one case, the same child, obviously painted and not injured, has been paraded in front of various
TV cameras by several different men, each declared to be his father by a different network.
Children and innocent civilians are, indeed, killed and injured, in spite of all the enormous
precautions and efforts of the Israeli forces. This is truly tragic. But the only alternative for Israel
is to sit still, absorb the thousands of missiles on its civilian population and wait for bigger,
deadlier and longer range missiles to start destroying everything in Israel. Israel is offered a
choice between a complete national suicide, on one hand, and an attack on the terrorists, with
extraordinary measures to avoid civilian casualties, but with the knowledge that such casualties
must occur when the other side is using children as human shields, storing explosives in mosques,
shooting mortars from schools and hiding the perpetrators in hospitals.
Most Hamas terrorists hide in safe bunkers, leaving their families in the war zone. They are
happy to fight to the last Palestinian civilian, not to the last Hamas terrorist. Women and children
are moving within the battlegrounds, with Hamas snipers shooting, using them as cover. The
women and children are not allowed into the limited space of the Hamas bunkers. More than
once, a woman is observed carrying a suicide belt. Israeli soldiers, who are trying
to help these women to move safely away from the fighting area, are at a very serious risk of a
suicide murder.
When the Hamas terrorists are killed, they are counted by the "UN Sources" as civilians. That is
how the "UN sources" reach the huge numbers of dead civilians they are reporting. Interestingly,
Al Jazeera almost never shows dead bodies of young males, and the western media, being fed by
Palestinian stringers, follow suit.
The Hamas TV ("Al Aksa TV") and Al Jazeera show, 24 hours a day, repeated video clips with
loud music, showing injured bloody children, including some body parts. Some injuries are real,
some are not, but the videos are shown nonstop between every two news items. The news items
themselves are often lies, but that really does not matter. What do matter are the video clips,
edited like commercials, brainwashing a worldwide audience and a new generation of future
terror sympathizers.
A video taken several years ago in Gaza, surfaced. The video documents an accidental explosion
of a Hamas truck, carrying a large number of missiles, among celebrating Palestinians somewhere
in Gaza. Many were killed and injured in this accident, and the pictures were devastating. There is
no Israeli involvement whatsoever, and the event happened a few years ago. European
networks, including France 2, are showing it now as evidence for the current "criminal" behavior
of Israel. The French channel apologized later, but the number of people who heard the apology is
significantly fewer than those who saw the horrible pictures and believed the lies. In this case, at
least, the hoax was delivered by the Hamas and France 2 was apparently the victim, not the
perpetrator, as it definitely was in well known previous cases.
Israel opens the border crossings daily, during the fighting, in order to provide basic food
ingredients and medication to the civilian population. No one can remember such a gesture in any
other war in history, certainly not toward the side that attacks only civilians and repeatedly
announces that its only aim is to totally annihilate its opponent. Most of the supplies are captured
by the Hamas terrorists and used for their own troops and their flourishing black market,
never providing them in an organized way to the population. "UN sources" claim
that not enough food is transmitted.
That the Hamas murderers use these tactics, lies and methods, is not at all surprising. That the
international community, with all its investigative reporters, swallows these lies so eagerly,
without exposing them, is something which demands an explanation.
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