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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/20/israel-goldstone-palestine-gaza-un
A Moral Atrocity
[Guardian-UK] Harold Evans - Now we have the sickening spectacle of Britain failing to stand by Israel, the only democracy with an independent judiciary in the entire region. Israel is not an "occupying power" in Gaza in either fact or international law. Four years ago it voluntarily pulled out all its soldiers and uprooted all its settlers. Here was a wonderful chance for Gaza to be the building block of a Palestinian state, and for Hamas to do what the Israelis did - take a piece of land and build a model state. They didn't. Instead of helping the desperate Palestinians, they conducted a religious war. Hamas is a terrorist organization hell-bent on the destruction of the State of Israel. What is a "proportionate" attack against an enemy dedicated to exterminating your people? A dedication to exterminating all of his? Col. Richard Kemp, a British commander in Bosnia and Afghanistan, stated: "The Israel Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare."