SlorgNet on 02 January 2009
Israel isn't defending democracy. It's bombing another democracy.
The Israelis have been systematically starving, blockading and besieging the people of Gaza for years now, because they had the bad taste to vote in a free, fair, democratic election for Hamas in 2006. You don't have to like Hamas as a party, but they did win that election fair and square.
Israel needs to let the West Bank and Gaza go. End the occupation, let them have their nation-state. Want security guarantees? Get EU troops in there with a peacekeeping mandate.
