I DO NOT regret the loss of "Palestinian" lives

To a SRO crowd of approximately a thousand people, the speakers affirmed their commitment to the continued existence of the State of Israel and lamented the loss of civilian life, as Mr. Grossman put it, “both Palestinian and Israeli.”
--The Last Angry Mensch (A Boston Supports Israel...Rally?)

For my part, I do not regret the loss of "Palestinian" (Arab) life.

Why not?

Am I a monster? An unfeeling creature who equates this defensive long-past-due incursion into the territory of a vicious enemy that kills and seeks to kill all Jews, men, women, children, babies, regardless of whether they wear an Israeli military uniform with the commanded biblical extermiations of enemies?

First of all, this long-past-due Gaza incursion is nothing like the biblical conflicts. Great care is taken--only on the part of the Israelis to spare non-combatant human life. The enemy of Israel is provided with supplies--food and mediacal--and the enemy wounded are treated at Israeli hospitals.

But let's face it: they--the Gazan Hamas "Palestinians"--asked for it. Innocent civilians? They elected Hamas--an entity sworn to destroy Israel and kill Jews to be their representative leadership.

Under Hamas auspices (as it had been under Fatah auspices before the election of Hamas) rockets have been and are being lobbed into Israel.

There is no "Palestinian" opposition to this policy. To kill all the Jews they can appears to be the goal of every "Palestinian" Arab Moslem inhabitant of Gaza.

Do you expect me to shed tears for "Palestinian" Gazan life being lost when Israel after being goaded for so long finally decided to remove the rocket-lobbers?

Did I cry, wring my hands, and regret German lives lost during the Allied bombing of German targets during world war II?

Hardly. And mind you, not every German then was a Nazi and complicit in killing Jews?

Still, Jews bemoan the fact that you cannot fight a war--that is being forced on you--without the loss of enemy lives.

Look at this:

from Solomonia, Jan. 9, 2009

Last night Temple Mishkan Tefilah in Newton seemed more like “The Massachusetts State Democratic Convention, The Sequel” than a rally in support of Israel which was what its billing announced. Originally scheduled as a mid-winter AIPAC meeting, the evening was highlighted by appearances, among others, by Governor Deval Patrick and Bob Haynes, the President of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. The Master of Ceremonies was Steve Grossman, former President of AIPAC and former national chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

To a SRO crowd of approximately a thousand people, the speakers affirmed their commitment to the continued existence of the State of Israel and lamented the loss of civilian life, as Mr. Grossman put it, “both Palestinian and Israeli.” The evening was obviously transformed into an evening of Israel support in the face of the too-many-to-count angry and, frankly, bloodthirsty demonstrations put on by International ANSWER, the Marxist front group that has bonded with Muslim extremists. ANSWER’s street theatre, oddly enough, does not feature ecumenical deploring of violence “on both sides.” (Continue Reading This Article)