8 innocent civilians were murdered yesterday in an school in Jerusalem. The victims were Israeli, and their murderer was Palestinian. This act of senseless violence has been condemned by most world leaders, including Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but I am disappointed by the reluctance of Hamas to voice its own condemnation of the murders. They seemed too busy talking about the deaths of Palestinian civilians to give a damn about the murders of more civilians, who happen to be Israeli.
"This is a normal response to all the Israel occupation, commission and aggression, and they [have] committed massacres inside the Gaza and West Bank - about 128 [people were] killed, 30 of them children and infants, people and elderly and [women]. So I find this is a normal response to all Israel's occupational crimes, and waging a war against the Palestinians." -Hamas Spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum
How much would it have pained Hamas to simply condemn violence against civilians, whether they be Israeli or Palestinian? My question for Hamas is this: If you can not condemn civilian deaths of your enemy, how do you expect your enemy to condemn the deaths of your own civilians?" If Hamas wants the world to care about the deaths of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, they should practice what they preach and condemn the murders of Israeli civilians. A civilian is a civilian, no matter what side of the wall they stand.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7282567.stm
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'Civilians', they were settlers, studying at an institution at the heart of expansionist Zionism. The settlements in Arab owned territory are a greater problem to world peace than Islamic politics, therefore I am sorry they were not civilians, but religious terrorists.
If that school had been an Islamic school then they would have been terrorists shot for a just cause, but because they are Jewish they are victims?
Let me be the first to agree that the illegal settlements which continue to expand on Arab land are the number one inhibitor to peace. They signal a complete lack of commitment on Israel’s part to a two state solution, by any just and equitable standards. However, no matter how much you and I disagree with the politics of the civilians who were killed on Thursday, it doesn’t change the fact that they were civilians. You are right to criticize those who, hypothetically, would call murdered students at an Islamist school “terrorists who got what they deserved.” In your book, and in mine, this would be a grievous error. If you are so quick to scorn these false labels, perhaps you should not use that same twisted logic to excuse the murders of Israeli civilians.
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