Ron Prosor is Israel 's ambassador to the United
Nations. He is a capable man; capable of making bad jokes by what he says and
what he fails to say. He did it again in spades, this time writing an article
under the title: “Club Med for Terrorists” which he published on August 25,
2014 – where else but the New York Times?
The Club Med he mentions in the title is what he calls the
“tiny Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar .”
He says it is the most prominent of the nations that still stand by Hamas which
he calls “the radical Palestinian Islamist group.” He is not happy with that
group because he says the hostilities in Gaza
persist between it and Israel .
And the way to end the hostilities, in his opinion, is to “disarm and isolate
Hamas.”
But why single out Hamas when the fight is between two
sides, the other being Israel ?
Why not disarm them both … which is what always happens in a dispute where
there is a call to end it? Ah, here is the answer: The call did not come from a
third party; it came from Israel
via its ambassador at the United Nations. But this is an unusual way to doing
things. You have two parties getting into a fight, and one says disarm the
other. Why is that? To finish him off without cost to you? Only a Jew would
come up with an idea like this. Junk it.
Prosor goes on to tell about the arsenal and other projects
that Hamas brought to bear into the fight. What he does not tell is what Israel brought.
Thus, we know that Hamas launched more than 14, 800 rockets at Israel during
the three rounds of fighting and the lulls between them since 2005. And there
has been the discovery of dozens of tunnels, he says; tunnels that were packed
with explosives, tranquilizers and handcuffs.
But was Israel
disarmed during that time? Of course not. Israel has a formidable arsenal of
American-made warplanes and helicopters equipped with American-made guided
missiles and smart bombs. It also has tanks and armored carriers of all sorts,
as well as sea crafts capable of hitting targets on land. We know that Israel used all
these weapons and more because the United Nation was there, reporting on the
deliberate shelling of Palestinian women and children in the schools under its
supervision. This is where those innocent civilians had sought shelter, and
were murdered in cold blood by the ITF, Israel 's Terrorist Force.
Well now, if mentioning the arsenal of Hamas without
mentioning that of Israel
was not odd enough, Prosor adds to the oddity by not mentioning the number of
casualties on either side. We know why that is, don't we? It is because the
dead Palestinian civilians number in the thousands while (at least according to
the Israelis) the dead Israeli civilians can be counted on the fingers of one
hand … and none of them came about because of the rockets. They died by regular
artillery shells, say the Israelis who do not wish to credit the Hamas rockets
with any sort of success because Hezbollah in the North has at least ten times
the number of rockets that Hamas began with. Let Hezbollah know how effective
the rockets were and they will know how useless the so-called Iron Dome has
been.
So then, what is Prosor complaining about? Well, talking
about the tunnels, he says this: “[They] end up at the doorsteps of Israeli
communities.” This means they had the potential of harming Israelis but never
did. By contrast, Israel 's
warplanes did reach UN schools full of refugees and murdered them. Yet, his
conclusion is that this should be “enough to convince anyone that Hamas has no
interest in residing alongside Israel
in peace.”
Oh yeah? If this is true, what can be said about Israel that did
reach the Palestinian communities and did manage to send many of them to their
graves? Prosor may not be mentally equipped to see that thousands of maimed and
dead on one side are worse than no maimed or dead on the other, but enough
people on this Planet are mentally equipped to see it. They passed judgment on
the situation and on Israel ,
seeing the latter as the calamity that proved to be the biggest mistake the UN
made when it voted to accept Israel
as a member.
Unable to find more reasons to unload on Hamas, Prosor
unloads on Qatar and
suggests that: “Qatar
is not a part of the solution but a significant part of the problem.” He goes
on to say that the message to Qatar
should be: “Stop financing Hamas.”