(Telegraph-UK) Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp - The EU's foreign affairs chief, Kaja Kallas, says "Israeli strikes in Gaza go beyond what is necessary to fight Hamas." Perhaps she should head to Jerusalem and give precise instructions to the IDF on what they should be doing to eliminate the Hamas terrorist regime. She can tell them how you kill terrorists entwined into the population, hiding in tunnels beneath schools, hospitals and houses, protected by the most comprehensively booby-trapped terrain in the history of warfare, all while minimizing harm to civilians. Of course, she doesn't have a clue. Fortunately the IDF does and has been waging this hugely complex war for 19 months with a combination of fighting prowess and humanitarian restraint that no other army could match. If the EU, the UN and those governments so eager to condemn the Jewish state actually wanted to achieve peace, they would support Israel in words and actions, and condemn Hamas at every turn. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA.
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