(CNN) -- When Israel is forced to defend its citizens from Palestinian terrorism originating from Gaza, we've come to expect outrage around the world. Critics are quick to condemn Israel's military actions -- some with such heavy-handed charges as "war crimes," "atrocities" and even "genocide," while remaining silent about the terrorists who started the conflict. At anti-Israel protests around the world, violent anti-Semitism is on full display, thinly veiled as criticism of Israel. Demonstrators in Turkey have attacked Israeli embassies. In Germany, France, Italy and Spain and other European countries, the protests have led to anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish people, community centers and synagogues.
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Abraham Foxman: The world is outraged when Israel is forced to defend itself from terrorism
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At global protests, he says, anti-Semitism is thinly veiled as criticism of Israel
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Foxman: We must remember Hamas intentionally started this conflict
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Foxman: Hamas spent millions on tunnels to attack Israel rather than helping Gazans
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But their words may not be enough, as @placeholder continues to be treated as the international community's whipping boy in the latest conflict.
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Instead, it went into a sickening subterranean network of tunnels designed to carry out surprise terrorist attacks across the border in @placeholder.
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This unconscionable waste of resources has brought about the two crowning "cultural" achievements of Hamas: Thousands of rockets raining down on Israeli towns and cities and terrorists armed to the teeth emerging from holes in the ground, intent on kidnapping more Israeli soldiers and killing @placeholder civilians.
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This culture of death is an essential part of Hamas' identity and ideology and has motivated the @placeholder leaders for the more than eight years they have controlled Gaza.
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@placeholder did not want this war, and certainly does not want to see civilians killed.
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Hamas, on the other hand, tries at every opportunity to inflict as much pain as possible on @placeholder, trying to kill more Israeli civilians by firing rockets at large population centers, by sending suicide bombers across the border and sacrificing the lives of their own children.
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Hamas, on the other hand, tries at every opportunity to inflict as much pain as possible on Israel, trying to kill more @placeholder civilians by firing rockets at large population centers, by sending suicide bombers across the border and sacrificing the lives of their own children.
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This is the true hypocrisy of the "condemn @placeholder" phenomenon.