Israel definately gets a big part of the blame. It is no coincidence this all wrapped up before Obama took office.
I also think it is ridiculous for them to accuse hamas of hiding behind civilians. Where the hell are they supposed to go? You expect them to go stand in the middle of a field and wait for the bombs? There is 1.5 million people in that tiny strip.
It's like you throw a guy in a barrel of fish and then when you shoot at him acuse him of hiding behind the fish. Or something like that.
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BBob on this thread I have posted videos with Hamas officials admitting that Israel makes warning phone calls to the targets so the civilians can be evacuated but Hamas have a policy of rounding up more women and children and sticking them in harms way.
Case closed!
Didn't you watch the videos?
Hamas are putting women and children in to target buildings to garner support and sympathy, Israel are trying to avoid civilian casualties with targeted strikes and warning phone calls.
Hamas have been provoking Israel ever since they took over Gaza, if Hamas had left Israel alone and stuck to building a mini state in difficult circumstances then there would be no Israeli attacks and the subsequent genocidal policy of using Palestinian women and children as human shields.
This is all Hamas's doing, they wanted this war and when it kicked off they wanted maximum civilian casualties.
If it's not Hamas's fault and it's just a bloodthirsty Israeli policy then why has it only been Gaza that has been attacked?
If Israel just want to kill Palestinians and didn't care about civilian casualties why isn't the West Bank under bombardment and why isn't the death toll in the multiple thousands.
All of the evidence points to the fact that this is a minor conflict started by a genocidal Islamofascist movement. The fact that so many are in such extreme opposition to Israeli action is very telling indeed.
Almost the whole world from the streets of the Islamic world to the streets of London and San Francisco have burst into simultaneous righteous anger and murderous rage and it's all about the antisemitism of the Islamists and the Left.
If this is not antisemitism please explain why a Gazan death toll of 1000 has deranged and angered so many when a Darfurian death toll of 300,000 barely raises a squeek.
Lets face it, It's because of who is involved in the conflict and people just can't stand the idea of an American backed Israel defending itself but they can quite easily shrug their shoulders when a rocket or a suicide bomber kills Israeli children.
"Well they are the American backed Jewish oppressors aren't they, maybe they had it coming"
I think those who are so willing to condemn Israel might need to check themselves for that black pearl of racist intolerance called antisemitism. It might not be obviously there but I think some very well meaning people carry their own little parcel of antisemitism secreted away somewhere, they just don't know it.
How else can you explain the apparent willingness to accept Israeli deaths but instant outrage over Palestinian deaths.
I can understand in a way someone in the Middle East who has been bought up to see Israel and Jews as demonic being more outraged by the proportionate targeted attacks in Gaza than by a real genocide in Darfur. It is them (world dominating blood drinking Jews) against us fighting over holy land but secular Westerners have no such excuse.
Yes they have grown up to see America, Britain and Israel as the the causes of all the worlds strife but they have the freedom to look at the evidence and make up their own mind. Something someone in the Muslim world cannot do easily.
The fact that so many Western liberals can still march on the streets of Western cities waiving Israeli flags with swastikas daubed over them as they march in lockstep with Hamas supporting Islamists chanting "Allahu Akbar" "The Jews are our dogs" screams racism.
I'm not accusing you of being one of those hysterical protesters Bob but you sure are joining in with the demonisation of Israel by saying that they either target civilians or don't care about civilian casualties.
They have one of the most advanced armies in history and they have been attacking a very densley populated area against an enemy using human shields and only 1000 people have died.
Just look at what a genocidal movement can do with machetes alone, 800,000 dead in the Rwandan genocide but one of the most advanced armies in the world is on a bloodthirsty rampage and they only kill 1000?
Please, it just doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Remember the Jennin 'massacre'?
According to Western activists and the Palestinian Authority 500 civilians were massacred and the media was a frenzy of condemnation but it turned out that 56 people where killed and 46 of them were armed. Think about that before you buy into what Left wing activists and the mainstream media are saying about Gaza.
I think everyone needs to put on their bifocals to see things in perspective then give themselves a good patting down for any hidden pockets of antisemitism or nasty traces of anti Americanism.
Once things are in perspective and the anti imperialist/antisemite baggage is out of the way perhaps the world can talk about peace in the Middle East, until then it's not only Hamas and the IDF keeping the fires burning.
Topic: Why Hamas is to blame not Israel.