Gil Troy
Newsweek, July 7, 2023
“Characteristically, most news sites ran photos of destroyed Palestinian cars, not seized homemade bombs, rifles, and mortars.”
Although Israel’s army left Jenin on Tuesday after two days spent attacking terrorist infrastructure, the cycle of nonsense attacking Israel’s action has just begun.
“Israel pulling out of Jenin but the cycle of violence continues,” the CBC proclaimed.
“The impunity that Israel has enjoyed for its acts of violence over decades, only fuel and intensify the recurring cycle of violence,” the UN’s Human Rights “experts” intoned.
In the Washington Post, the former diplomat Aaron David Miller proclaimed more colorfully yet predictably that Israeli and Palestinians are “trapped in a bloody, volatile cul-de-sac.”
In fact, Israel’s surgical strike was totally-justified, long-in-the-making – and potentially game-changing.
In Jenin, Israel was cutting out tumors, not “mowing the lawn”—the popular metaphor explaining Israel’s periodic Gaza clashes. While they sometimes recur, lethal growths must be removed. The “tumors” included hundreds of weapons confiscated, multiple bomb-making factories destroyed, and two terrorist command-and-control centers eradicated. One booby-trapped, cramped, half-mile by half-mile enclave harbored all this firepower, striking distance from Israel’s largest city, Tel Aviv, and its capital, Jerusalem. Americans would never abide terrorist mega-centers in New Haven, Connecticut, 70 miles from New York, or in Richmond, Virginia, 90 miles from Washington, DC.
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