This is from the JERUSALEM POST, i got it from TODAY newspaper :

A Time to Fight

The mission of the Israeli Defence Force(IDF) is not to bring down the Hamas regime, but to bring quiet to the South. In a sense we are asking Hamas to stop being Hamas.
Hamas needs to decide whether they want to go down in flames or are prepared to take on the responsibilities that come with control over the Gaza Strip.
They may give Israel no choice but to topple their administration.
We do not expect this operation to be fast or easy. We do expect it to succeed.
On a quiet post-Christmas weekend, the events in Gaza have captured world attention. From an unsympathetic foreign media, we are aready hearing complaints that Israel's retaliation is "disproportionate" and a form of "collective punishment".
That over 200 Palestinians have been killed compared to the only one Israeli leads some journalists to conclude that Israel is inherently in the wrong.
There was a grudging understanding that Hamas uses Palestinian non-combatants as human shields, along with an unreasonable demand that Israel magically find away not to harm any of them.
The formula for purchasing the affection of those who suffer from moral relatvisim is sickeningly clear: If one Jew is killed, we get very little piety. If, heaven forbid, an Israeli kindergarten was to take a direct hit -- Israel might, temporarily, gain sympathy of news anchors from Paris to London to Madrid. At that price we would rather forgo their sympathy.
We wonder how an international community that can't bring itself to explicitly support Israel's operation against the most intransigent of fanatics expects to play a postivie role in facilitating peace in this region. Hamas must be stopped. And the civilised world must help stop it.


i think the article is nicely written the author would definitely have gotten an A1 for GP no doubt. and i think he does have a valid point. If Hamas is really fanatics that has to be stopped, then i would not be so quick to dismiss Israel's attacks as wrong. I really don't know about the situation though, but one thing i do know is that the writer of this article would make a good debator.