Existential Threats

That well-known hotbed of anti-semitism, Amnesty International, has published a report criticising the Righteous State for acting "within the confines of the law to exercise its right to defend itself, its sovereign territory, and civilians against terror organizations". In the course of so doing, the Righteous State detrimented more than six hundred and fifty Palestinians, half of them unarmed civilians. Of the unarmed civilians, a hundred and twenty were children. The Righteous Army said that it "does its utmost to avoid harming innocent people ... in contrast to terror organizations that do their utmost to harm innocent civilians", which presumably explains why the number of Palestinians killed by Israelis increased threefold last year, while the number of Israelis killed by Palestinians dropped by half. The report also criticises the Righteous State for withholding "hundreds of millions of dollars in tax duties", causing conditions in the West Bank and Gaza concentration camps to deteriorate to "crisis levels". The tax duties were withheld after the Palestinians were foolish enough to elect the wrong government, namely that of Hamas, which "refuses to renounce violence or recognize Israel's right to exist". The Righteous State's renunciation of violence and its recognition of Palestine's right to exist are apparently not mentioned in the Amnesty report.