What would you do if rockets were striking your country? RT if you agree that #Israel has the right to self-defense. pic.twitter.com/mNfY0Smx
In response, journalist Lauren Booth, Tony Blair’s half-sister-in-law, tweeted: “yes Palestinians do have the right to defend themselves a good point well made”.
Another response – “How can it be self-defence if you started it?” – could easily have come from either side, summing up the seemingly unbridgeable gulf between the pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli sides as the argue over the conflict across various forms of media.
November 17, 2012 at 8:37 am
Its not self defense when you break an agreed upon cease fire and then you assassinate the man who negotiated the terms you agreed to. In that case you are not to be trusted and you are responsible for the consequences like the 3 dead Israelis that would not be dead now. Israel’s word is not worth anything.