Thursday, January 08, 2009

If Israel Is To Be Criticized Over Gaza, What About These Other Countries?

At Family Security Matters, Mark Silverberg notes that Gaza is not a one-of-a-kind situation:
Israel is constantly confronted with the demand that it must return Gaza and the West Bank to the Palestinians and the Golan Heights to Syria – areas seized during the 1967 Six-Day War. Why then do we never hear that same argument being raised against other nations? After World War II, Poland annexed 10% of historic Germany (East Prussia); Morocco controls the Western Sahara; Armenia has controlled 15% of neighboring Azerbaijan since 1994; Turkey has controlled half of Cyprus since its 1974 invasion; Russia has controlled the Kurile Islands off northern Japan for 63 years and China has occupied Tibet since 1950. So, where is the international outcry demanding that these countries return lands they seized in war? Why is it that only Israel's control over the West Bank merits international censure?
For that matter, why is it only Hamas that considers it their right to fire rockets at civilians as part of a plan to get that land back?

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