The indefatigable Tom Gross highlights this story compiled from the Palestinian press:
Ma’an and other Palestinian news agencies report that the Hamas government in Gaza has renewed its policy of demolishing the homes of Palestinian families in order to seize land for government use. 120 families are to lose their homes in the latest round of demolitions – a far greater number than the number of illegally built Palestinian homes Israel has demolished in recent years – and unlike Israeli authorities, Hamas doesn’t even claim these homes were built illegally or with dangerous structures. Yet western media and human rights groups have been virtually silent about these destructions of Palestinian homes by Hamas.
As Gross points out, this past February, Hamas undertook another wave of demolitions in Gaza City’s Hamami neighborhood. Maybe Hamas leaders need land to build more luxury villas like their PLO predecessors did. Perhaps it’s time for Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and others to show they really stand on principle, and aren’t simply using the Israel-Palestinian conflict to score cheap political points or, in the case of Human Rights Watch, advance their prospects for fundraising in Saudi Arabia.
Faux outrage at the Jews is never about specific actions or policies of the Israeli government, it's that Jews HAVE a state and a functioning government at all. Hamas could openly crucify 'collaborators' in a long line from one end of Gaza to the other and make it a national holiday and at best their apologists in the western media would mumble and stare at their shoes until it occurred to them that since there is no point in pretending to be rational they can just create another Jewish blood libel. Hell, the progressives in the west would be screaming that the Evil Jews are keeping shipments of timber from being trucked into Gaza to allow them a freer hand in their own jurisprudence.
If the 'world' is silent about Hamas destroying people, why should the 'world' say anything about Hamas destroying buildings? n nHard bigotry of no expectations + Jew hatred = silent 'world'. n nWhat is more distressing than a silent world is a silent American Government. In fact, it is even worse than silent. n nI would bet a dollar that one of the promises Hillary of the Bad Hair made to Mursi is to push Israel into concessions to the Brotherhood offshoot that is 'Hamas'. I only wonder of that was before or after Egyptians pelted her with shoes, rotten tomatoes and taunts of 'Monica, Monica!'. I think she will have to try harder to weaken Israel if she is to win their love. n nBut I digress. n n n n
As if Israel doesn't do that, in a much larger scale and much more often.