The rush to judgement: ALLEGING ISRAEL USED "DISPROPORTIONATE FORCE" TO PROTECT THE GAZA FENCE

"The recent, ongoing flood of international criticism and censure against Israel, and specifically the time-worn mantra accusing Israel of a 'disproportionate and indiscriminate' response to the Hamas–organized 'Peaceful March of Return,' calls for comment as to the bona fides of those who so easily and glibly make such accusations.

Perhaps the most obvious, blatant, and fatuous example of this new spate of Israel-bashing is the rehashing of the accusation that Israel acted in a 'disproportionate and indiscriminate' manner. This is repeated by European leaders whenever Israel is obliged to defend itself and its territory.
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The 'peaceful' march of return and protests were presented by the Hamas propaganda machine and rapidly digested by the international community. The goal of the ostensibly innocent Palestinian civilians, according to Hamas, was to 'break out' of the Gaza Strip area, liberate Jerusalem, and protest the limitations imposed as part of Israel's maritime closure on the importation of certain dual-use materials into the Gaza Strip.

But this was far from the peaceful 'picnic' publicized and plied by Hamas and the Palestinian leadership to the leaders of the international community and in the international media.

It involved attempts by Hamas operatives, hiding among those ostensibly innocent civilians most of whom were recruited, encouraged, or forced by Hamas to charge the fence separating sovereign Israeli territory from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Their declared aim was to destroy and break through the fence, enter near-by Israeli villages, kill and kidnap Israelis, and ultimately 'liberate Jerusalem.'..."