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Monday, January 5, 2009 12:00 AM

Why Israelis support the Gaza offensive

Israel's post-traumatic war is not just about stopping Hamas rockets, but about repairing reputations -- and erasing the stain of failure.

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  • Monday, January 5, 2009 10:28 AM

    If Israel vanished today at 4pm eastern

    and left only a pile of gold and unicorns made out of pot, in its wake, Salon would complain that their failure to leave it all in neat piles is a war crime that's inscrutably bent on oppressing the poor poor Palestinians. You can't argue with bigots, you can't point out they are bigots and you can't shame them into not being bigots. That's the nature of bigotry. Israel left Gaza 3 years ago and gave them approximately 6,800 chances (the number of rockets and mortars fired into Israel since) to kiss and make up. Not only that but the Hamas shelled the very powerplant that Israel uses to deliver 65% of the electricity to Gaza, for free and then whines that it's a war crime when the lights go out because they damaged the very same power plant.

    In the meantime Hamas has murdered hundreds of their fellow Palestinians in back alley political violence and plain old thuggery. Salon is just pissed off that they didn't manage to kill more Jews. Again, that's the nature of bigotry.

    So have at it, bigots. You are irredeemable.

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