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Israel lobbyist blames Palestinians for Israel’s killing of 4 civilians

Two days ago, in response to mortar attacks from Gaza, Israel fired indiscriminately, killing four civilians in Gaza with a tank shell or a mortar round. Two of the dead were brothers, 11 and 16. They were apparently on a playground.This is a bloody cycle that Goldstone sought to end through the use of international law.

But the Israel lobby says only one side is responsible. The Israel Project’s Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi in the NY Jewish Week:

The only violence on the Israeli side has come from trying to stop the violence aimed at Israelis. It’s not like Israel is attacking civilians. They’re not. Yesterday was a terrible tragedy. Rockets were being fired at Israel. Israel tried to stop the rocket [launchers] and, of course, the rocket launchers were in civilian areas [in Gaza], and innocent Palestinians died. So I’m not just upset that an Israeli woman died today in a terrorist attack. I’m also extremely upset that innocent Palestinians died as a result of Palestinian terrorists using civilian shields. This is not just catastrophic for the Israeli side.

The Jerusalem bombing was not a suicide terrorist; it was a bomb next to a bus, not a bomber on a bus. But what happened in Gaza was a suicide strategy by the Palestinians — shooting rockets from civilian areas, [creating a situation] causing Palestinian civilians to die.

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