Poor Republican

Boo hoo.

For years Hamas, Hezbollah, and the massive hodgepodge of “I hate Israel, America, Britain, and any other country that has running water, lights, and lets women show more than their eyes” groups have cried about Israel occupying Gaza.  That in and of itself was a joke.

Gaza was originally occupied during the 1967 war when it was used as a jumping off point to attack Israel.  Like the Golan Heights, Israel took these territories to provide a buffer between Israel and her enemies.  Israel unilaterally pulled out of Gaza, even displacing her own citizens from their homes to do so.  They gave the Palestinians full autonomy, even allowing Egypt to control the strategic Philadelphi Route, which Israel had legal right to.

What was the result?  Hamas took over the territory and immediately began using it to launch attacks against Israel.  The Egyptians claim to secure the Philadelphi Route, yet the materials to build and launch hundreds of rockets somehow find their way into Gaza….while human rights groups decry the lack of basic medical supplies and food in the territory.  If you can smuggle in rocket propellant and warhead materals, couldn’t you also smuggle in drugs and food for your “poor, victimized, innocent” people?

There was a ceasefire, which Hamas broke.  Hamas has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel since then, most launched from points in residential neighborhoods.

Finally Israel got sick of it and struck back hard.  The reaction was predictable.

The same people who said little or nothing when Hamas broke the ceasefire and fired rockets into civilian areas are now screaming about Israel’s “war crimes” for striking military targets that happen to have civilians near them.  They don’t criticize Hamas for launching rockets from civilian neighborhoods; they criticize Israel for attacking the launch sites.  They don’t blame Hamas for building 40+ tunnels to smuggle military supplies through; they blame Israel for bombing the tunnels.

The funniest one yet is condemning Israel for “disproportionate use of force” by bombing Hamas targets.  Fighting back too hard?!  If you walked up to the average liberal who curses Israel’s “overreaction” on a daily basis and punched him in the face, do you think he would accept it if you insisted that he only be allowed to hit you back the exact number of times you hit him?  With the exact same amount of force?  If he hauled off and flattened you, would he feel sorry for you if you cried “disproportionate force?!”

You poke the bear, then cry when the bear mauls you?  And everyone else backs you up for your stupidity?

It reminds me of an encounter with my son’s elementary school principal.  A bully had been punching, pinching, shoving, tripping, etc. my son for the better part of a week.  Finally the boy jumped on my son’s back and forced him face down on the asphalt, bloodying my son’s lips.  At this point my son rolled the boy off and cleaned his clock.  The bully was suddenly a “victim” of my son’s “overreaction.”  My son was in trouble for “continuing a circle of violence” and because he “fought back too hard.”

I asked the principal how he’d react if I came over his desk and started beating him.  Would he only call the police?  Would he only fight back a certain amount so his force was “proportionate” to mine?  His reply was classic liberal.  He said “well that’s different.”  In other words, the standard applies to whoever a liberal says it applies, but not to anyone he doesn’t want it to.  Sort of like the way they interpret the Constitution…..

That’s how it always is with liberals.  Chop off someone’s head, nothing.  Take some naked pictures of prisoners who are otherwise unharmed, it’s a war crime.  Blow up a bus full of schoolchildren, nothing.  Demolish the house of the bomber, it’s a crime against humanity.  Launch a hundred rockets into Israel, deliberately targeting civilians, nothing.  Bomb the launch sites of the rockets, it’s “disproportionate force.”

If you are an enemy of Western civilization, America, English-speaking people, Christians, etc. then anything you do is a result of something your victim did.

If you, the victim, retaliate…..”well that’s different.”