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OPINION
There is also a Humanitarian Crisis in Israel

by Yitzchok Roth


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The world wants to send humanitarian aid to Gaza, to the myriad refugees who were forced to leave their homes because of the IDF bombardment. How much pity and mercy there exists in the world!

The selfsame compassion which led to the flow of billions of dollars to Gaza but which oiled Hamas' war machinery and enabled this murderous organization to deflect the money sent for the needy and to purchase weaponry instead. It enabled them to create a well-trained army, dig tunnels throughout the Strip, brutally eliminate all dissenters and to attack Israel — which led to the need to rebuild their ruins and starve the people who should have received that aid.

Again, Israeli publicity is faltering. Perhaps it isn't so pleasant for Israel to admit it, but even here, in a progressive country, there are tens of thousands of refugees. Tens of thousands of citizens were forced to leave their homes both in the south and in the north in order to protect themselves from being shelled. It is not like Gaza where the gunfire is directed against the terror infrastructure, against buildings which serve the Nazi organizations which flourish in the Gaza Strip and where inhabitants are inadvertently hit.

But here, the target is primarily the citizen population. There is malicious intent to kill men, women and children indiscriminately. Tens of thousands of citizens were forced to leave their homes for an indefinite period so as not to become cannon fodder of the shelling of murderous Palestinian terror organizations.

Why doesn't Israel show these displaced people to the world?

This is a repetition of a years-long failure, dating back to the establishment of the State when the Palestinians shed crocodile tears before the entire world because of the war which forced them to become 'displaced people,' a the war which they, themselves, forced upon Jewry. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Jewish expatriates fled by the skin of their teeth, helpless and destitute. And the new State simply failed to draw the comparison between the Palestinian refugees and the Jewish ones.

Not that it would have made a difference because the world would not have pitied the Jewish homeless refugees in any case. But perhaps they would have been able to inject in the world-consciousness the fact that in its nascent years, the State of Israel absorbed hundreds of thousands refugees, settled them in the land, provided them with homes and livelihoods while the Arab countries memorialized the Palestinian refugee problem so that it serve them as a constant weapon against the Jewish State.

In a certain way, history repeats itself, and counter to the tens of thousands of Gazan citizens fleeing the threat of Israeli bombing, there are tens of thousands of Israelis similarly fleeing the Palestinian shelling from Gaza. It is not pleasant to make the comparison but it exists nonetheless.

And if the world is so concerned for the welfare of the Nazis in Gaza who were evicted by circumstance from their homes, we should at least present the sight to the world of tens of thousands Israelis shunted from their homes so as not to fall victim to the war crimes of the Hamas-Isis fiends.

 

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