As Americans, we are allies with Israel. Over the weekend though my allegiance has shifted. Israel has been carrying out airstrikes that have left over 230 Palestinians dead and over 700 injured. The airstrikes were in retaliation for rockets being fired from Palestine into Israel. Those rockets have been reported to have killed one Israeli.
The United Nations has even come out and said that Israel should halt all military action immediately because of the scale of attacks. I certainly agree with the UN. Israel must stop their disproportionate use of force.
Israel Pounds Gaza for Second Day [Reuters]
UN Security Council Urges End to All Military Activities in Gaza [AFP]
Okay, Dan. Here we go again! Let's figure the many times Hamas, an international terrorist organization, affiliated with Hezbollah (mostly in Lebanon) and Iran, have caused insurgent destruction and loss of life in Israel. First, Hamas, like many terrorist organizations in the world, embeds itself into the general population of the country it resides in. This is the extreme height of cowardice! Hiding behind the elderly, the young, male or female; it does not matter. There is no way that any retaliatory strikes from the air or ground will prevent innocent human loss. I get sad and truly feel for all these Palestinians currently getting killed and injured in these defense strikes against Hamas, but collateral fallout's are bound to happen in the most effective surgical military operation. It was Hamas, themselves, who broke the peace right after the last cease-fire pact was terminated, by firing rockets into Israel haphazardly and causing panic, destruction, injuries and some deaths. It is continuing daily, despite the onslaught of Israel's military sweep. How much more harassment and torment can a country such as Israel take when it is continually showered with rocket attacks. In simple terms, if someone in your neighborhood threw stones and targeted your house, day and night, every day,(and this has been going on for years on-and-off) and some stones struck your child or your wife, injuring them. When the judicial system finally entered the situation and stopped the stone-throwing, and after termination of the cease and desist order, the stones came flying back at your house again. What would be your thoughts and what exactly how would you handle it? International laws can prevent some of this, but for tribes and cultures who have "been at it" for centuries, nothing is going to change the course of fate. Some world leaders are trying to nose-in and help stop this bloodbath in Palestine, but I do not think, knowing the Jewish/Hebrew culture and their history in Israel, not much is going to stop their strategic and tactical operations for a little while, at least. JK
Ok, all I'm going to say about your little rant:
Pot. Meet kettle.
JK. I read your story about throwing stones. As we all know jews are very professional in showing themselves defenceless. But everybody knows it's a trick.
You don't mind killing all the arab women and children and the way you try to justify it, just makes me laugh. Who said killing innocents is a self-defence and trying to achieve the minimum level of liberty is terrorism? As the history shows, you are the killers of God's prophets so it does not surprise me if you don't have mercy on some helpless women and children.
Let me get this straight. Hamas is comprised of a bunch of idiots who can't aim well, so Israel should not protect themselves?
That's like having someone trying to shoot you and kill you, but they miss the first shot, so you can't shoot back. Stop spouting the moronic rhetoric that was force fed to you by your ultra left college professors and think for yourselves.