Andrew Bolt: Israel was left with few options when faced with threat
IN the face of toxic levels of hatred, Israel made a difficult and tragic decision — but it had a duty to protect its people, writes Andrew Bolt.
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YES, Israel looks monstrous for shooting dead about 60 Palestinians who were threatening to tear down the fence along its border with Gaza.
But there is one profound moral difference between the men and women defending Israel and the protesting class now damning them as war criminals.
Israel’s guardians must answer the question their Leftist haters won’t: yes, but what would you do? What would you do if you had their responsibility to protect? Most Twitter activists don’t have that kind of responsibility, and don’t even try to put themselves in the shoes of those who do.
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They lack that moral seriousness that comes with making decisions that have real-world consequences. Theirs is the luxury of irresponsibility, which rots their ability to be morally serious.
Here is the question they won’t answer, in various permutations.
What would you do if tens of thousands of Gazans mustered along your border, threatening to tear down the fence?
What would you do if you knew they’d been ordered there by the Hamas terrorist group that rules their territory and which has pledged in its charter to destroy Israel and kill Jews?
What would you do if you knew Hamas on a Facebook page had told demonstrators to arm themselves and kidnap Israelis if they got through?
What would you do if you knew Hamas had in the past fired hundreds of rockets into Israel and had dug tunnels under the fence to attack Jews?
What would you do if you knew that Sheikh As’ad Abu Shari’a, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, urged followers in his televised sermon last Friday to kill Jews ... “unless they stop being corrupt and corrupting others, we will meet them only in places of terror and battle, where that state will be annihilated, because the Jews are behind all corruption upon the land”?
What would you do if you knew Hamas television ran programs for children which coached them to kill Jews?
What would you do if you knew that once the fence was breached, thousands of Muslims — many potentially armed — would flood into nearby Israeli towns?
What would you do if you then saw thousands of people approach the fence behind the cover of dense smoke from burning tyres, while hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails?
What would you do? Shoot, or let the mobs through?
Answer or be silent.
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