I Can Hit You, But You Can Not Hit Me Back!

I have been watching the whole Gaza the victim and Israel the aggressor thing for the past week and quite frankly I am sick and tired of it. First of all Gaza for the past year (07) has lobbed hundreds of rockets into Israeli towns. During all of this Israel pretty much just sucked it up and moved on. The Israelis listened to international pressures to not respond. But seriously folks, how can you ask a country to allow its citizens to just shut up and deal with this type of attack. You cannot!

Let's say your neighbor started to throw molotov cocktails into your house, starting fires and hurting your children. Your natural response would be in this order,

1. get every one out of the house

2. call the police and report this incident

3. go over and have a very angry exchange with your neighbor.

But lets say that when the police arrive they do nothing to your neighbor and begin to turn on you. Telling you that the piece of land that you are living on used to belong to the neighbors great, great grandfathers.

Of course you would look at them and wonder if drug testing is mandatory for the PD. They also tell you if you want the actions of the neighbors to stop, then you should find a new place to live.

You begin to piece together a picture that you will get no justice and your house is burned to the ground.

Now you do have options;

1. stay where you are and take the neighbors insults and fire bombings, or;

2. deal with the neighbor in a way that will make them think twice before doing it again.

Basically you would be on your own, because lets face it the law is not going to really do their job.

This is the same position that Israel finds itself in. They have been put up to the wall and threatened. They have capitulated to the will of Hamas over and over, but still they are "firebombed." And the police, aka the UN, are not lifting a finger to help but rather they are telling Israel to shut up or move; in this case give up more of their land.

Common sense would dictate that if you are attacked to protect your family, which is what Israel is doing. You can not blame them, they have been patient, hoping that things would change with a newly elected government (who by the way is broadcasting from undisclosed locations; more than likely not in Gaza.)

I am also willing to bet that most of the people in Gaza are being told what to say and who to hate or else, it is like a prison over there. 

By the way if all the arab countries are so concerned for the people in Gaza, why do they not let the refugees stay with them; Saudi, Jordan, Lebanon, etc…, its just a thought.