In 1967, Israel took the Gaza Strip from Egypt after Egypt committed an act of war by closing Red Sea shipping lanes to Israeli shipping. Israel stayed in the Gaza Strip until 2005. Throughout that time, Palestinian terrorists justified their murder of Israeli civilians and soldiers on the basis of that military presence. After Israel left, the Palestinians continued launching attacks out of the Gaza Strip - turns out, their terrorism didn't really have much to do with the much-derided Occupation after all. Within the last year, Hamas gunmen - that would be gunmen associated with the ruling Palestinian party - have crossed the border and attacked Israeli soldiers. Hamas militants have also launched hundreds of rockets and missiles into Israeli cities - literal day to day shelling of civilians, as real as any war can be. Trying to put a stop to this, the Israeli army has occasionally gone back into the Gaza Strip - or, as a fair observer would say, been pulled back into the area they've repeatedly tried to leave. They have sought to root out the cells launching rockets and missiles at Israeli schools and hospitals, all of whom are launching their weapons from urban apartment complexes and back yards. In one incident a shell aimed at one apartment building - housing terrorists - hit a different apartment building - where there were no terrorists. This incident happens in the midst of months and years of such near-impossible anti-terrorism operations, conducted as Palestinians become more and more comfortable using human shields.

So of course, the UN has launched an investigation into the incident. They won't say a word about the thousands of times that Palestinians have used human shields, or about the thousands of times they've intentionally shelled Israeli civilian centers. But the Palestinians finally succeed in getting their human shields killed - the exquisite care that Israel takes to avoid civilian casualties falters just once - and it's anti-Israel UN Emergency Meeting Time:

The hypocrisy is so entrenched that they're not even ashamed of it any more.

[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]

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