For anyone thinking Israel is showing restraint and only targeting Hamas

Gotta admire those pacifist Israelis, winning back their white country after the Arabs stole it so long ago.

 

"American" revolution, not so much either.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel

I have zero patience for the targeting of civilians to make a political statement.

When you defend your military installations by surrounding them with civilians, there WILL be civilian casualties when your enemy responds to your attacks. So...again, it seems pretty disingenuous for Hamas to grab up dead/injured children to parade in front of the cameras when they orchestrated the debacle by purposely targeting Israeli civilians. Imo, the sooner the Palestinians realize that they will never get sympathy for killing civilians, the better for them.

As far as the biggest open air prison comment, the Israeli's built the barrier around Gaza and the West Bank because they were tired of having Palestinians, wearing explosive vests, turn their women and children into pink mist at their bus stops, train stations and gathering places. The fence seems to be helping, so Hamas uses rockets instead of suicide murderers to carry out their mission of killing Israeli civilians.

I feel for the Palestinian people, because I don't believe most of them support the rocket attacks on Israel, or murdering innocents with explosive vests. But on the other hand, they voted Hamas into power. Elections have consequences.

Here's hoping the current cease-fire will hold.

Go Blazers

 

If Israel has such a great missile defense system, why does it have to drop bombs on Gaza? They should definitely blow up the tunnels. But the bombing is over-kill, given that it is killing children.

The Palestinians have really dug their own pit though. I know they are in a shit situation, and they got a raw deal with the creation of the Israellli state. But Israel exists now, and they are not going away. The Palestinians situation won't improve until they drop their terrorist ideals and concentrate on building up their own nation.

The world wants to help them, they send them aid and they use it for terrorist activities.

 

Ah, stop with the false outrage. Nobody likes 3 teenagers being killed whether they're Israeli or Palestinian, but where's your outrage when Palestinians civilians are murdered at the hands of the Israeli government? United Nations stats suggest the death rate of Palestinians to Israelis even before this "war" is at least 4 to 1.

The point is still missed. Israeli government says Hamas did something and all of our media runs with it. If they say Hamas is using civilians as human shields, they repeat it. The American media is bought and paid for by the Israeli/Jewish lobby in this country and we can't seem to get any objective news on this. This goes far beyond this war and the question is why.

It's because the Israelis restrict the flow of materials, food, water and other necessities into the country. They also continue to build illegal settlements making more and more Palestinians homeless each and everyday.

 

Not funny. Just politics. Many of the mid-east countries aren't stepping in to help Gaza. Why? Well, America has a long history of buying their governments. I don't think you should hold up Egypt as some authority figure on anything right now. Not a good idea...

 

America won its civil war with... war. I don't know how you can blame the oppressed for lashing out against its oppressor. There's a reason why Nelson Mandela supported the Palestinian cause, but that doesn't fit into the narrative of why he was such a great man.

 

Because of Israel's military control, it is extremely difficult to get materials into the territory to build. That's one of the issues. They are smothering Gaza so that it cannot prosper. They limit the amount of water getting into Gaza - they actually steal much of Gaza's water supply according to the UN. They limit the amount of food and medication as well.

Google the list of items you can't bring into Gaza. It's a very very long list that has nothing to do with terrorism. I believe last I checked, Nutmeg and Notebook paper was still illegal.

 

4 to 1? I suppose if the Israels can manage it, they will extend this to 10-1. They probably learn something new, each time the Palestinians attack. Hell, I would run them clear out of Gaza this time if it were me, but only those that can move fast enough due South. South of Al Aqabah ought to do.

 

We can both agree that Hamas cannot stay. You and the media sticking to the Hamas issue is a red herring though. That is a separate issue from the continued occupation and siege. Is Abbas a terrorist too? Because he and many other governments are supporting Hamas' efforts right now.

Again, this has been going on for quite a long time, way before Hamas came into the picture. To continue talking about them as the main issue is completely disingenuous and dishonest to the root of this issue. I thought they killed those 3 teenagers and that's why Israel responded in self defense? Oh, that didn't happen? Well, then, they are terrorists. It's the same rehashed rhetoric over and over again.

Netanyahu has already been caught on audio suggesting that he has the United States wrapped around his finger. He is much more of a terrorist than any of Hamas has been and that's well documented by the U.N.

All you have to do is read a couple of these articles to understand what is actually happening. I don't fault you for your ignorance because unfortunately, American media is not reporting on what is actually happening in Gaza, only the response from Hamas which is taken completely out of context.

 

Hooray for you. You're okay with killing innocent civilians despite them being the ones that are oppressed according to the U.N.

If someone said the same thing about the Israelis, it would be considered antisemitic. Congrats.

 

You must have missed how the U.S. government labeled MLK Jr. a domestic terrorist at the time.

 

And the U.S. isn't? Seriously? The U.N. voted on recognizing Palestine as its own state and the only two states that didn't recognize it was the U.S. and Israel. ALL of those countries are on the wrong side of this issue, right?

 

Even those within the Israeli government admit Arafat had no choice but to walk away from the horrid deal the Israelis were offering. Try reading something other than Zionist propaganda.

You're right to say the people want good lives, but they haven't had it for 60+ years, with or without those bad actors like Hamas. It's like you're choosing to not recognize anything before this war which is really troublesome but fitting for the Fox News narrative.