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They have a war. Disinformation, dehumanizing, and brutal acts of violence are all part of the game in which everyone will lose one way or another.
The faceless and nameless spokesman is choosing his words for effect not for education. Why partake?
Good read…
www.nytimes.com
Opinion | Seeking a Moral Compass in Gaza’s War
The U.S. bungled its response to 9/11. Let’s hope Israel moves forward with greater wisdom.
Wow. I agree with a NYT Op EdGood read…
Opinion | Seeking a Moral Compass in Gaza’s War
The U.S. bungled its response to 9/11. Let’s hope Israel moves forward with greater wisdom.
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When Jews are getting murdered you're Mr Nuance all the sudden. This is so fuggin classic.
Israel, like almost every country, separates its war machine from its civilian population. They have army bases, air force bases, and so forth at some distance from civilian areas.
Hamas puts rocket launchers in schoolyards and antiaircraft guns on hospital roofs and weapons storage areas in apartment block basements. They WANT civilians to get hurt when the inevitable reprisal attacks come, it makes Israel look bad and gets them media support. They DGAF about their own people's lives.
Hamas puts rocket launchers in schoolyards and antiaircraft guns on hospital roofs and weapons storage areas in apartment block basements. They WANT civilians to get hurt when the inevitable reprisal attacks come, it makes Israel look bad and gets them media support. They DGAF about their own people's lives.
Unfortunately, I think you are right. Hamas isn't going away at this point, even if Israel does a 180. I think I'm just reacting to the mainstream opinion here and elsewhere, which usually elides Israel's atrocities.
Who would I want to be captured by? As a white American citizen, IDF obviously.
Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth. 2 million people on 25 mile stretch.
Wherever you drop the rocket, you're going to kill someone.
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Why the need for rockets in the first place. Hamas only has rockets to terrorize Israel. They are not for defense. They do not have a need to defend themselves with rockets. These are cowardly, unhuman beings.
There's still open space. Which Hamas won't utilize for obvious reasons. Hamas has always been notorious for putting weapons in/next to hospitals, schools, mosques etc. There's no shield like a human shield. Grandma was old and the kid was an idiot. f-them.
Tunnels. Unfortunately, that's most likely where they are holding the hostages as well...
Israel's impending ground invasion of Gaza will have to breach a 300-mile system of underground tunnels operated by terrorist group Hamas, experts warn.
Source: It's all over the news!
No one has denied Israel's heavy handed treatment of the Palestinians. This is my post that you cherry picked the bolded sentence from: "Ending the Aliyah (Right to Return) policy should have happened a long time ago. Allowing the illegal overexpansion of the settlements has been a big problem and a big mistake. However, that and the subsequent treatment of the Palestinians in no ways merits the barbaric actions perpetrated by Hamas. It was a suicide mission for what gain?"
I also noted in a previous post, where's mention of the culpability of the Palestinian leadership? Ever since he co-founded Fatah in the 50's Arafat ran a grift using his people for personal gain. He was never interested in building his people up and making a better place for them. They were his tool and nothing has changed since. Hamas does not give 0.0001 $hits about the Palestinian people.
Your post doesn't explain why Hamas needs rockets. The only reason Hamas has rockets is to terrorize Israel.
This was also in the news:
Per senior Hamas official Ali Baraka: "The Israelis are known to love life. We, on the other hand, sacrifice ourselves. We consider our dead to be martyrs. The thing any Palestinian desires the most is to be martyred for the sake of Allah, defending his land," he continued. "We have been preparing for this for two years. We have local factories for everything. We have rockets with ranges of 250 kilometers, 160 kilometers, 80 kilometers, 45 kilometers and 10 kilometers."
"Our allies are those that support us with weapons and money. First and foremost it is Iran that is giving us money and weapons," Baraka said.
How do you negotiate with someone with that mentality?
Would you have said the same of the children of Hitler's Nazis?
I'd say we did the right thing to Berlin and Dresden in WWII.
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