Hamas Continues to Launch Rockets from Gaza as TIME Condemns Israel

I think I'm going to cancel my subscription to TIME Magazine. I've noticed for awhile that their coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is unbalanced. But this article about the Gaza border breach might be the straw that broke this camel's back. There is ample space given to describing the difficulties under which the Gazan Paelestinians live, with blame laid squarely on Israel. But almost no indication is given as to why Israel has blockaded this dysfunctional political entity. The primary notice that is given is:

"The wild exodus from Gaza, which included more than one-fifth of the territory's 1.5 million people, was just a brief respite from the reality of life under Israel's blockade, which had been tightened on Jan. 17 in response to rocket attacks from Gaza soil."

"In response to rocket attacks from Gaza soil?" Who launched the rockets from Gaza? Colonel Sanders and his army of fry cooks?

This is a classic example of framing Israel's actions in an active voice (as you will see by the article), but framing the Palestinian role in a passive voice, as if they had no role in their own actions. Unbelievable!

The photos above come from a Gaza rocket factory, where up to 100 rockets are produced per night (and this is just from ONE factory). Up to fifty rockets per day rain down on southern Israel.

Israel provides Gaza with nearly 70% of its electrical power, which would be analogous to the United States providing electrical power to Mexico while under rocket attack from its customers. No other society on Earth would be expected to provide electricity - as well as fuel - to an enemy seeking its destruction (and if you doubt that, then explain why the Hamas charter calls for the destruction of Israel and its replacement with a Palestinian Islamic state).

Israel escalated its existing blockade of Gaza (in response to the unending rocket barrage) on January 17. "They stopped the flow of commercial goods, reduced the flow of fuel, and began letting through only humanitarian aid, such as food and medicines." They did NOT cut electrical power. But in response, "Hamas closed the single power plant that provided most of the power to Gaza City," in order to elicit world sympathy and pressure Israel, as usual, without addressing the reasons for the blockade in the first place. They even staged blackouts to fool journalists.

This drama led to Hamas blowing up parts of the border wall between Gaza and Egypt, and 12 days of free movement of Gazans into Egypt (until Egypt resealed the border last week). During the breach, the Gazans were able to "bolster their stores of weapons and explosives," which will inevitably aid them in more attacks against Israel.

For Israel, can you say, "No win situation?"

But none of this was reflected in the TIME Magazine article, which only painted the sad plight of the average Gazan, and denounced Israel for creating this situation. Now if I could find so much evidence to the contrary in a simple article search - reflected in the numerous links above, which I encourage you to review - could there be any excuse for TIME other than a severe bias against Israel?