Reply #35: Hey, I quoted you. That was your argument. Now you're moving the goalposts. [View All]

[Bolo Boffin]

I don't blame you. The argument was ridiculous.

Now why are houses being targeted? Because they are the houses of suspected Hamas leaders.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/new-israeli-attacks-target-hamas-homes-1221806.html

After destroying Hamas' security compounds, Israel turned its attention to the group's leadership. In airstrike after airstrike, warplanes hit some 20 houses believed to belong to Hamas militants and members of other armed groups, Palestinians said.

They said the Israelis either warned nearby residents by phone or fired a warning missile to try to reduce civilian casualties. Israeli planes also dropped leaflets east of Gaza giving a confidential phone number and e-mail address for people to report locations of rocket squads. Residents stepped over the leaflets.

Israel used similar tactics during its 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Most of the targeted homes today belonged to activist leaders and appeared to be empty at the time, but one man was killed in a strike in the Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.

So there is not an ethnic cleansing going on at all. It is not the Palestinian people in general being targeted. Israel is not trying to get the Palestinians to leave Gaza. But Hamas? Yes, Hamas is being targeted. Now until you can demonstrate how Hamas membership is an ethnicity or genetically determined, you don't have a point.