Charles Krauthammer cuts through the hand wringing and lays into the "proportional response" crowd who not only have a problem with enemy identification but also demonstrate the moral sense of an ocelot - he rightly highlights the clear moral choice in supporting Israel:The grievance? It cannot be 'occupation', military control or settlers. They were all removed in September 2005. There's only one grievance and Hamas is open about it. Israel's very existence.
Nor does Hamas conceal its strategy. Provoke conflict. Wait for the inevitable civilian casualties. Bring down the world's opprobrium on Israel. Force it into an untenable cease-fire -- exactly as happened in Lebanon. Then, as in Lebanon, rearm, rebuild and mobilize for the next round. Perpetual war. Since its raison d'etre is the eradication of Israel, there are only two possible outcomes: the defeat of Hamas or the extinction of Israel.The opponents of Israel in this conflict never get around to mentioning these facts. To do so would destroy their dishonest narrative that Israel is bombing Hamas to kill civilians and "punish" the terrorists for their pinpricks with overwhelming force. They believe that Israelis should live with the constant threat of sudden death from their enemies and not continue the "cycle of violence" - ignoring just who it is that is perpetrating the violence.
It is all very sophisticated and nuanced - and morally repugnant. Krauthammer reminds us just who is in the right and who is wrong in this conflict.
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