Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: WATCH: IDF Soldier Screams At Israeli Activists: 'You Are Worse Than The Arabs' [View all]TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)...more powerful than the niggling and essentially ineffectual attacks coming from within Gaza.
The rockets from Palestine did almost zero damage and disrupted Israeli life to the tune of a brief soujourn in a quite comfortable shelter for a few. (You might want to ask a BLITZ SURVIVOR how they had it with entire neighbourhoods packed into a few tens of yards of soot caked railway tunnels.)
The Palestinians were permitted neither warning, nor shelter. And somehow or other a hell of a lot of those presicion strikes managed to hit a lot of schools, clinics and homes, and kill a lot of women and children. How often were ZERO, NONE, NADA post pubescent male (possibly, let alone demonstrably militant) bodies extracted from the rubble? Any such were long gone from the point of impact by the time a shell or warhead arrived, if they'd ever been there at all. And wouldn't all those women and children be long gone too, realising that one outgoing absolutely guaranteed that one incoming was only minutes away.
Are you going to double down on your claim that miltants are hiding behind women and children, by also suggesting they are deliberately inviting Israeli retaliation and then with equal cold blooded and depraved deliberation are, KETTLING THEIR OWN WOMEN AND CHILDREN at the anticipated point of impact to make martyrs of them.
You excuse this colateral damage as unavoidable, even though "Gone in 60 seconds" applies as much to launching man portable rockets as it does to stealing motor vehicles, but when Israel locates legitimate military targets such as munitions plants and arsenals in the middle of towns, any attacks on them are decried as deliberate attacks on the civilian population.
And yet Israelis have the hide to complain about how badly traumatised the attacks left them.
Just how the bloody hell do you justify that? Really? Israelis had become so accustomed to tranquility, that any assault was beyond the pale, whilst, Palestinians should be so used to it, that they should have no trouble sucking up some more of the same old same old. Shame about your kids.
Whether it's true or not, I absolutely guaratee you, that that is exactly how a great many Palestinians feel.
Couple that with the very simple fact that there are over 3 million Pallestinian refugees living entirely on the sufferance of host nations, and well over a million more living in camps where a third generation is growing up as displaced persons, having a cultural identity, but no nationality and no freedom of movement within the nation where they were born.
FFS, don't you think this might be why, in the face of a 100 to 1 casualty exchange rate, Palestine still fights back?