Monday, January 12, 2009

Israeli Public Broadly Backs The War Against Gaza

Smoke billows from a targeted location inside the northern Gaza Strip during an Israeli air raid Monday. Guez/Getty (Photo New York Daily News)

From International Herald Tribune:

JERUSALEM: To many abroad, the picture could not be clearer: Israel's war in Gaza is a wildly disproportionate response to the rockets of Hamas, causing untold human suffering, bombing an already isolated and impoverished population into the Stone Age, and it must be stopped. But here in Israel, very few among the Jewish population see it that way.

How can a war that looks so awful - in which a civilian crowd near a United Nations school was hit, killing several dozen, and Red Cross workers were denied access to scores of dead and wounded for days, causing global outrage - be supported by such a vast Israeli public?

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