Analyzing this week's edition of 'It's All Israel's Fault'

The "Blame Israel First" crowd (first cousins to the "Blame Bush First" team) is at it again in their never-ending campaign of hero worship for the thugs and terrorists of various Islamicidal cults, as exemplified by Hamas and Hezbollah.

Noteworthy, from the incredibly wrong-headed nonsense posted at Huff 'n Puff:

"Israel, you are better than this. You are not just typical. You have the wisdom of the universe in your borders. You have profound knowledge of why death doesn't fix a problem. You have the USA to help you.

Please, put the gun down. Move away from the gun.

Just. Stop."

And I'm sure those angelic terrorists will reciprocate of their own free will, right?

James Robbins has some excellent analysis that provides a clear understanding of the terrorists' aggression against Israel.

Excerpt:

"...what is a proportional response to Hamas’s policy of firing rockets and mortars into populated areas? Should Israel respond in kind, killing civilians purposefully (as is clearly the intent of the Hamas offensive) and gaining no military benefit? Those who object to Israel’s target list should be required to suggest which Hamas installations should be left standing — and why.

Also, even if proportionality is the standard, there is proportionality in objectives: Hamas seeks to destroy Israel, and Israel’s current offensive (as explained by several of the country's leading officials) is designed to destroy Hamas. If the war is back on, it makes sense for Israel to fight to win. The Hamas leadership should have considered that possibility before deciding not to renew the ceasefire."

NRO's editors add the proper perspective:

"Israel has been extremely dilatory in responding to the aggression of Hamas, but nobody doubted that the day of reckoning would come. Hamas is never going to change its belief that it has a God-given mission to destroy Israel, and the capacity to do so.......

... In Cairo, Damascus, or Tehran, many evidently think it right and proper and normal for Hamas to keep up a barrage of missiles and rockets while Israelis are supposed to accept the punishment, while measures of self-defense on the part of Israel are to be considered criminal."

This false equivalence is also in wide circulation among terror enabling Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" everywhere.