Gaza conflict: Israel PM Netanyahu vows further campaign

[Galraedia]

Source: BBC News

Israel's military says it carried out 92 air strikes on Wednesday in response to 137 rockets fired from Gaza.

Hamas says the wife and child of its military commander, Mohammed Deif, were killed in an Israeli strike on Tuesday.

Hostilities resumed on Tuesday, with both sides blaming each other for the collapse of peace talks in Cairo.

Six weeks of fierce fighting have left at least 2,103 people dead.



Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28871703

[Fred Sanders]

1. 2,103 people left dead, left unsaid is 2030 are Palestinians. The child deaths are 300 to 0.

Civilians about 1000 to 3. No wonder it is left unsaid, the math says it all.

Better to just lump all the deaths together and hope no one notices.....

And the property damage....what is the tally there?

[FLPanhandle]

11. Firing rockets is the dumbest thing Hamas does.

The Palestinians have a great chance to bring world pressure on Israel, yet they throw away the moral high ground with dumb rocket attacks that don't do anything but provide political and public cover for the Israeli actions.

Hamas is Israel's biggest enabler. Why the people of Gaza don't hunt them down themselves is a mystery.

[Fred Sanders]

12. It is symbolic, resistance to the occupation and imprisonment and blockade and racism....how

much harm have these rockets done compared to 30,000 bombs and shells shot by IDF?

Why do you guys always want to deflect from the "kill the neighbour for throwing a rock" mentality?

[FLPanhandle]

13. It doesn't matter how much damage the rockets cause.

The rockets destroy the Palestinians rightful and deserved moral high ground and public sympathy, even if the rockets caused zero damage and zero deaths.

Hamas is enabling this to continue by providing Israel a justification for what it wants to do anyway.

Take away the whole terrorist label and the world would rally around the Palestinians. Hamas, to Israels delight, prefers to pursue a military option when they are completely out gunned. That's just stupid.

The only real lever the Palestinians have is political and that requires getting world opinion on their side. Hamas continually pisses that away with "symbolic" attacks.

[GitRDun]

2. Netanyahu is a war criminal!

We've got to start calling BS on these lame excuses for killing innocents.

The St. Louis police killed a guy for having a knife and brandishing it and trying to commit suicide by cop. wtf?

We've stopped valuing human life somewhere along the way.

Let's fix that, OK?

[Fred Sanders]

3. Killing babies you know are likely with the target and will also die is the definition of a war

crime.....the apologists are now down to defending killing babies, having moved on from defending killing 10 year olds playing in a beach.

[former9thward]

5. Hamas started the rocket fire breaking the truce.

An inconvenient fact you ignore.

[U4ikLefty]

6. Sounds like ISIS blaming American bombs for the beheading of James Foley.

Both excuses are bullshit

[GitRDun]

7. You just don't get it...

The police in Ferguson go on a rampage when someone throws a water bottle.

Who does that sound like?

Sheesh wake up and smell the crap you are shoveling! Disproportionate responses are not right, no matter where they happen.

[former9thward]

8. Yeah, when were attacked by Japan

We should have stopped when we killed 3000 of them....

[Fred Sanders]

9. Japan was a nation.....not a prison next door....not even a good try.

[Fred Sanders]

10. Kill the neighbour who throws a rock at your window? You would do that??....

[former9thward]

14. I would kill the neighbor who fires a rocket at my house trying to kill my family.

I would not wait until my family was dead before I responded. The difference between you and me. Actually the difference between almost all of the people in the world and you.

[Fred Sanders]

15. Your house is in no danger, sir, in the vast lands of Occupied Palestine and Israel, there are many

houses to be shot at with unguided rockets....what are the odds? Your analogy is beyond weak.

Combine logic with your imagination, it works better.

30,000 rockets, 0 houses hit....you live in a manufactured fear land.

30,000 artillery shells....plenty of houses hit, the piles of dead bodies tells you they hit their mark, the IDF proudly claims it.
Not to mention the power plant hit. Bullseye, no more electricity for any house...your house have electricity?

[former9thward]

16. You seem disappointed that not enough Israelis have been murdered.

[Fred Sanders]

17. And there it is, the weakest of the weak themes.....disappointing, thought you were better....unable

to refute the math or the logic....

[NealK]

4. Netanyahu is a cruel bastard.