If Israel is Trying to Commit Genocide, It Must Have the Most Incompetent Army in the World

The facts: 18 days of war, 900 Palestinians killed (of which many are Hamas terrorists), in a tiny area one fifth the size of Toronto packed with 1.5 million people.

Everywhere I go on the net lately and every newspaper I pick up contains accusations hurled against Israel that include genocide. For example, here is the president of the UN General Assembly, the Marxist Catholic liberationist from Nicaragua, saying it: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/01/200911321467988347.html

And here is an article from Jim Wallis's famously left-wing blog humbly entitled: "God's Politics:" http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/2009/01/08/5096/

Duane Shank, to his great credit, says in this article that no one has a right to say that Jews should be wiped out or that Israel has no right to exist. But remember, he is writing in a rabidly left-wing setting and the comments indicate that his is a minority position. They consist mostly of constant, unrelenting attacks on Israel, re-writing of history, loose and undefined emotive terms like "genocide" and many calls for the same goal as Hamas has - the dismantling of Israel as a Jewish state (which would likely lead to Jews having to flee the country or be murdered).

I have not had many occasions recently to be proud of my country, but this action the by the Canadian government made me glad to be a Canadian: http://www.thestar.com/article/569872

But why was Canada alone on this one? The recent decision of the Left to turn against Israel is disgusting and dangerous. But then again, it was that great man of the Left, Hitler, who did it first. And Stalin gave it a good shot too. The Left is quickly losing whatever high ground it once occupied.

So Israel is trying to commit genocide. Well, if so, they must be pretty bad shots. Carpet bombing Gaza City for two weeks as the US and Britain did to German cities in 1945 would be the way to do it - the casualties would be in the hundreds of thousands at least. But attacking a terrorist organization devoted to wiping out Israel and which has been killing civilians by firing rockets randamly into populated areas for months: that is genocide. I suppose the Jews who fought back against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto were also committing genocide. Does anyone know what the word "genocide" even means?

In the article Duane Shank quotes a story about Dr. Martin Luther King:

"During an appearance at Harvard University shortly before his death, a student stood up and asked King to address himself to the issue of Zionism. The question was clearly hostile. King responded, “When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism.”

When the Left has to disagree with Martin Luther King in order to justify their hatred of Israel, you know they are getting desperate.