Russia Wants What?
Russia called on Israel and the Palestinians to end the latest wave of violence to give peace a chance. What? Has Putin been listening to John Lennon records? Not likely.
“Moscow once again voices its categorical condemnation of the rocket attacks on Israeli territory,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “They must stop immediately.”
Sounds like Russia just wants everybody to just get along, right?
Moscow also said it could not accept that “shells and bombs are falling on the heads of peaceful (Palestinian) women and children, under the pretext of fighting these acts of terror”.
The pretext? You mean that Israel is deliberately bombing and killing women and children? That’s untrue in the extreme and the world knows it.
“Given the tough blockade of the Gaza Strip, the permanent humanitarian catastrophe, such acts by Israel only give extra arguments to those not willing that Israel and a future Palestinian state should live in peace and harmony,” the statement said.
Ahhh, now we come to the truth of it. The bleat about condemning the terrorist attacks on Israel was only to preface another verbal assault on Israel for defending itself. The plain truth is that the Russians care nothing about the Palestinians, what they care about is appeasing Arabs, and making speeches condemning Israel goes to that end.
Russia has never been a safe haven for Jews, who have suffered pogrom after pogrom at the hands of the Russians throughout history, so this should surprise no one.
Anyone reading the reports on Israels counter-attacks can’t help noting that children are always listed as among the Palestinian dead. Those statements are taken entirely from Hamas and are very likely false, although it is true that the terrorists do like to fire rockets where children are in the hope that some of the kids will be killed if there’s a response from Israel. Then they can hold up little dead bodies and blame Israel. So take the reports of dead children with a huge grain of salt. The Israelis try very hard to target only the terrorists.
It needs to be remembered that the Palestinians are not the victims of Israel. They’re the victims of a doctrine they’re born into that teaches them to hate Jews. All they need to do to have peace and prosperity is to stop murdering people who mean them no harm.
Tags: Israel, Palestinians, rockets, Russia