I don't think any rational person, nation or even the irrational UN, denies the Palestinians store munitions, etc. near civilians, including children. @PeteS in CA This is not an epiphany. The killing of civilians has been an issue for decades. The problem Israel is facing is "the Palestinians made us do it" defense is wearing thin. In fact, the whole Israeli/Palestinian mess is wearing thin.
Yeah.
The Palestinians evaporated the entire, if scant, supply of sympathy in my locker when they decided to cheer on 9-11.
They use their own children to pack suicide vests in and blow up Israeli children. If they're children mean that much to them, why should anyone else care when their children are blown up when acting as human shields for terrorists?
As for Israel, they're the victims, here. Someone fires a rocket at them, Israel fires back. The instigators knew what was going to happen, they did not care. Why should we care when they don't?
Why should we care when the terrorist animals won't negotiate in good faith because their only goal is the destruction of the people on the other side of the table?
Eff'em. They had their chance. They don't deserve another.
And, please -- do not fail to notice how perceptions have changed, and not in Israel's favor. For the generation coming into power, Israel is Goliath.
Yes, it's amazing how much influence the media has in shaping public opinion.
Which means the public perception of events is not what rational people use to just the merits of an event.
The events here were that Hamas, hiding behind woman, children and an AP Press office, launched rocket attacks on a civilian population center, targeting women and children. So the victim retaliates, as it should, and boo-hoo-hoo and all that, but the terrorists aren't all that upset that the children they were hiding behind were blown up, so I'm certainly not going to give a crap about it.
Maybe the parents of those children should start getting pissed at Hamas instead of at the victims.
Around the world "Israel has a right to defend herself -- any way she sees fit" is morphing into "Palestinians have a right to be free of Israeli control". After 54 years it is now, more than ever, in Israel's best interest to find a solution to this mess --- or this new generation of leaders will do it for her.
The so-called "Palestinians" certainly have a right to live free of Israeli control.
IMO they should join Rosie O'Donuts and the other Loser Rodents and pick a country they can all be happy living in together, say like National Socialist Germany, and move there. Israel owns the territory inside it's borders, so there's no getting away from israeli control inside Israel. So the terrorist animals have to move.
What can be more fair than that? To Merkel with them all.
As Israel's patron saint, does not the US have an obligation to help Israel understand this?
Yes, as soon as the coup is terminated in the US and the US has it's own president again, certainly that Republican should be happy to tell Israel the best thing it could do is to order Hamas out of Israel.
