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As Israel murders <\/strong><\/a>one more Hamas Leader – Ratansi was blown up with his son and body guards – the US refuses to condem it on grounds that the Israelis’ have the “right to defend” themselves.<\/p>\n

This is a very scary moral stand to take.<\/p>\n

Is this what the worlds’ largest democracy mouthing : that it is Ok to murder in order to defend. There is the right to pre emptive strike. The right to kill in advance to prevent killing. The right to commit a crime, to prevent a crime being committed at some point in time in the future. But then what can you expect from a nation that wiped out indegenous people to settle the land?<\/p>\n

And Israel – why is it hellbent on creating martyrs for the fundamentalist cause. Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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