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Why does the UN allow Hamas to position and use rocket launchers in their school?
Hundreds of human beings have died, many of them children, and the victims are blamed. It is a point of view I just simply do not understand.
How do you know that Hamas has rocket launchers positioned in it’s schools? Because the Israeli’s say so?
Why can’t we talk about the conditions the Palestinians live in; about the fact that food and medical supplies are cut off; about people who cannot go to work, cannot go to school, cannot live anything close to ordinary lives; about how they have no human rights?
How can we as human beings ignore the situation the Palestinians are placed in and blame them for their efforts to survive?
It appears to be the case that the attack was in response to another mortar attack:
http://www.wtap.com/news/headlines/37167019.html
That seems reliable, as residents of Gaza are unlikely to be pro-israel: if they’re pointing the finger elsewhere, it’s likely to be true.
Obviously, that doesn’t make the school explosions OK. But it changes the equation: instead of asking “did Israel target innocents?” (as so many seem to be assuming) one might ask “Should Israel shoot back at people who were firing mortars at them, when those people are firing from near a civilian population?”
Now, arguably this was a situation where Israel should have sucked it up and taken the mortar fire without responding to it. I’m not a military strategist so perhaps I’m wrong.
It will be interesting to see what (if anything) Hamas says about their role in this. It will also be interesting to see if news and bloggers change their responses to the crisis in light of the information.
So even if they place mortar near the schools, it’s okay to bomb the schools themselves which are filled with families evacuating? That makes a lot of sense. And the Israelis equipment is much more precise in hitting targets than that used by the Hamas. As is their equipment for deflecting rockets coming into their country.
Can’t be done. That’s a world where most of us can’t even imagine. It’s much easier to look at it through the lens including those who live in a country which gives over $1 billion to finance attacks where children are 30% of the victims, where schools, hospitals, funeral tents and evacuating families with no where to go are bombed, have their limbs blown off and are killed, filling up rooms wall to wall with bodies. All in a area where foreign press have been forbidden by the bombing country from entering.
Change it to Afghanistan or Iraq and the U.S. is pulling the trigger. That’s what makes it much easier for us to sleep at night. Because we believe what our leaders tell us, that this makes us safer when in reality, it really doesn’t.
And you have to bomb the children. Why? So they don’t grow up. Nits become lice, you know.
Go team go!
Because the UN hates Israel and is secretly controlled by the Illuminati which also controls Hamas????
The Israeli Army says two of the dead were militants. It accuses Gaza’s Hamas rulers of “cynically” using civilians as human shields.
Suppose two members of your least favorite radical group went up to a random policeman, shot him, and then ran into, say, the rush hour crowd in Times Square. The police then started firing wildly into the crowd, killing about 70 people, including the two attackers. Would you suggest that the police get a medal? Or would you think that they were trigger happy goons who needed some retraining? In how to aim, if nothing else.
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Er, no. Which is why I said this:
Incidentally, as far as I can figure out from the article, they didn’t “bomb the school.” I think that they fired a small number (two?) artillery shells at the street next to the school. The reports are saying things like this:
Does this make it OK? nope. Artillery shells are just a way of delivering explosives, and they’re no more moral than a bomb. Israel should have considered the effects of secondary damage.
We can’t. We can, however, categorize some efforts as “acceptable” and other efforts as “unacceptable.”
Attacking a densely populated city, and blaming the people for being in the way is absurd. Tanks shells, bombs, rockets, and mortars are not weapons of discrimination in a city. I’ve seen the results on the ground of 500 and 1,000 pound bombs up close and personal. I spent a good part of my life as a warrior. The Israeli military may be targeting Hamas fighters, but the weapons of choice kill all of those around who are in range of the weapon. The Israeli’s are lucky, the weapons of Hamas are much less deadly and much less accruate, which is seen clearly in the small number of casualties inflicted. For every Palestinian the IDF kills, they create many more terrorists and people who grow up to hate Israel. Hamas can not be defeated militarily for this very reason. By just surviving they win, and the Israelis insure more killing, more hatred, no peace. Their tactics strengthen Hamas and other terrorists, and weaken the moderates who want peace. The problems in the Middle East will never be solved through violence, by either side.