{"product_id":"the-case-for-moral-clarity-israel-hamas-and-gaza","title":"The Case For Moral Clarity: Israel  Hamas and Gaza","description":"\u003cp\u003eHamass tactic of playing Russian roulette with the lives of Israeli children by firing thousands of rockets at a million Israelis  while employing human shields in order to maximize Palestinian civilian casualties  is pure evil. The Israeli decision to respond to this unlawful and immoral provocation by targeting the terrorists and their rockets is pure self-defense  authorized by international law  the United Nations Charter and universally accepted moral principles. Yet most of the world remained silent about  and many even supported  the Hamas evil tactic  while most of the world condemned Israels entirely reasonable response.  When the media began to cover this latest war started by Hamas  and Israels response to it  I noticed a strong media bias against Israel. Sometimes it was quite deliberate  but sometimes it was simply the result of the medias understandable focus on showing dead and injured victims  particularly children. I decided that it was important to present a fuller perspective in the court of public opinion. Accordingly I set out to write a series of Op-Eds  defending Israel s right to protect its citizens by proportional military action. Over the course of the war I published my writings in the Wall Street Journal  The Christian Science Monitor  the Los Angeles Times  the Miami Herald  The New York Times  the Washington Times  The Canada Post  the Huffington Post  the Jerusalem Post  Frontpagemag and other print and online media. I also participated in interviews and debates on CNN and BBC. The response was overwhelming. I received numerous emails and letters imploring me to circulate my views more widely  since the perspective I presented in my writings and appearances was very much a minority view in the media. When cease fires were finally declared  I decided to publish revised and updated versions of these essays and several new ones written especially for this volume in a short book  in order to make them more widely available in an easily accessible format  and to respond to the often erroneous and biased misinformation that passes for objective description.  This short book asks why so much of the world has been so morally bankrupt so eyeless in Gaza when it comes to the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Why has there been so little moral clarity over this conflict between good and evil? Why does the media not do a better job of explaining that the dead Palestinian children it shows the world were killed because they were deliberately placed in harms way by Hamas precisely in order to create these horrible images? Why is a double standard applied to Israeli self-defense actions? Why are the usual standards of criticism not applied to Hamass double war crimes? Why are there so many more protests and so much more rage when the Israeli Army accidentally kills human shields in defense of its own children than when Muslims murder Muslims in cold blood and in much larger numbers throughout the world? Why is terrorism justified by so many only when it is directed at Israeli civilians? Why is so much of the world so wrong when it comes to Israel?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44957732241461,"sku":"ByrdShop_0966154851","price":57.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780966154856.jpg?v=1770331110","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-case-for-moral-clarity-israel-hamas-and-gaza","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}