Notice how some folks here twist sympathy for murdered Palestinian children into hatred for Jews? If thugs were holding your family hostage in your own home, and firing out of your windows (though such bad shots that they did not hit anyone) and the police responded by burning down your house down with all your family in it, would you simply say that it was all the thugs’ fault, and that the police had no choice but to use napalm? Hamas fired 2800 rockets and killed 4 Israelis: one Thai worker, one Bedouin Arab, one rabbi delivering food to the front, and one old woman who died of a heart attack from fear of the air raid siren. So, one Israeli death for every 700 rockets fired. At that rate, they would have to fire 45,000 additional rockets to kill as many Israelis as the incursion into Gaza has killed in a few days. According to Israel, 64 Israeli soldiers have died in the attack, and 1768 Palestinians, or 26 Palestinians for each Israeli. (The ratio is less advantageous to Israel if you believe Palestinian figures, who claim to have killed many more Israeli soldiers than Israel gives them “credit” for. According to Palestinian figures, the ratio is about 12 Palestinians for each Israeli.) And Israel is primary victim here?Even granting that the Palestinians have brought this on themselves by their bad behavior, I would like to see what our bloodthirsty fellow countrymen, who defend Israeli actions all the way, would do if they found themselves living in Gaza. If their friends and families were killed in the crossfire, if their lives had been blighted for decades, if they could not leave and had no place to go, would they continue to think all the right was on Israel’s side, and consider them justified in all that they do to keep Gaza cut off from the world? Would they rise up in violent rebellion to take control of Gaza away from Hamas? The Israelis and the Palestinians are chained together, neither one is EVER going to “go away.” Any policy that does not aim at, and contribute to, eventual peaceful coexistence is self destructive. Every shot fired by either Hamas or Israel is ultimately a self-inflicted wound. Does anybody see any reason to think that this kind of thing is just going to go on for decades more, making all concerned miserable, and accomplishing nothing? My sympathies are more for the Palestinians than for the Israelis (as much as I abhor all that Hamas stands for) because Palestinian children are suffering so very much more than Israeli children, in every respect.
Notice how some folks here twist sympathy for murdered Palestinian children into hatred for Jews? If thugs were holding your family hostage in your own home, and firing out of your windows (though such bad shots that they did not hit anyone) and the police responded by burning down your house down with all your family in it, would you simply say that it was all the thugs’ fault, and that the police had no choice but to use napalm? Hamas fired 2800 rockets and killed 4 Israelis: one Thai worker, one Bedouin Arab, one rabbi delivering food to the front, and one old woman who died of a heart attack from fear of the air raid siren. So, one Israeli death for every 700 rockets fired. At that rate, they would have to fire 45,000 additional rockets to kill as many Israelis as the incursion into Gaza has killed in a few days. According to Israel, 64 Israeli soldiers have died in the attack, and 1768 Palestinians, or 26 Palestinians for each Israeli. (The ratio is less advantageous to Israel if you believe Palestinian figures, who claim to have killed many more Israeli soldiers than Israel gives them “credit” for. According to Palestinian figures, the ratio is about 12 Palestinians for each Israeli.) And Israel is primary victim here?Even granting that the Palestinians have brought this on themselves by their bad behavior, I would like to see what our bloodthirsty fellow countrymen, who defend Israeli actions all the way, would do if they found themselves living in Gaza. If their friends and families were killed in the crossfire, if their lives had been blighted for decades, if they could not leave and had no place to go, would they continue to think all the right was on Israel’s side, and consider them justified in all that they do to keep Gaza cut off from the world? Would they rise up in violent rebellion to take control of Gaza away from Hamas? The Israelis and the Palestinians are chained together, neither one is EVER going to “go away.” Any policy that does not aim at, and contribute to, eventual peaceful coexistence is self destructive. Every shot fired by either Hamas or Israel is ultimately a self-inflicted wound. Does anybody see any reason to think that this kind of thing is just going to go on for decades more, making all concerned miserable, and accomplishing nothing? My sympathies are more for the Palestinians than for the Israelis (as much as I abhor all that Hamas stands for) because Palestinian children are suffering so very much more than Israeli children, in every respect.