This article by Yossi Klein Halevi is from last week, but we are posting again as we wanted to congratulate The Australian for reproducing it in their print edition today and for exposing the wider Australian community to this very important read - Highlight - And because Hamas’s objective isn’t military but psychological, its leaders can view the carnage in Gaza and still declare victory. The devastation is an essential component of Hamas’s strategy — to trigger international outrage and constrain Israel’s right to defend itself. These efforts have only hardened Israeli contempt for the world’s judgment. Israelis know the IDF does not deliberately kill civilians, because our sons have been fighting in Gaza. We know that dead Palestinian civilians serve only the interests of Hamas. We know mistakes happen in war because — unlike many of Israel’s Western critics — we know war. And we knew the Hamas figures of civilian casualties, at first widely accepted by the media, would turn out to be distortions. Like and share.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 06:00:56 +0000
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