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April 12, 2018       Share:    

Source: http://thehill.com/opinion/international/382681-hamas-attacks-israel-and-the-world-condemns-israel

Hamas Attacks Israel - and the World Condemns Israel

(The Hill) Larry Haas - With hundreds of Palestinians chanting, "We are going to Jerusalem, millions of martyrs," Hamas leaders made clear that their "March of Return" is only the latest tactic in their efforts to destroy Israel. However, that hasn't convinced much of the global community to abandon its comfortable narrative of a peace-loving Palestinian people in Gaza driven to violence by an iron-fisted Israel. However carefully it responds to violent efforts to breach its borders and attack its people, Israel finds itself falsely portrayed, second-guessed, and ultimately condemned. "Palestine and Jerusalem belong to us," top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh declared this week. Maybe Israel's critics don't realize that with their one-sided condemnations, they're emboldening Hamas. Or maybe they do. The writer, a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, served as senior communications director for Vice President Al Gore.

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