quirkyfly said:
They must be sooo traumatised, how can people do such a thing! <sarcasm>
I swear, Israeli's are uttermost hypocrites. They go beserk when rockets are fired at them when they bombard us Palestinians continuously, committing genocide, murdering innocent children, women and men, and it was planned for six months.
Definitely NOT any retaliation. They broke the ceasefire. They planned TO WANTON MURDER.
It seems from your post that you are naive to the situation and a cause that I have been against for some time now.
1. Hamas broke the "ceasefire". A "ceasefire" that was not observed by Hamas and only by Israel as Hamas continuously fired rockets into the Southern Negev region of Israel effecting Israeli men women and children.
2. Israel is not engaged in a war with the Palestinians. If Israel was engaged with a war with Palestinians there would be military action in the West Bank. Israel is engage in a war with Hamas a terrorist organisation as recognised by the United Nations, European Union and Australia (along with many other countries.).
3. Hamas has been firing rockets into Israel for many years now. This is not a new thing. What has made the situation even more dire is the acquisition of rockets that can now reach even larger civillian hubs such as Ashkelon, Ashdod and Be'er Sheva. All of these cities lie within soverign Israel as afforded to them by the International community.
4. Even if this war of self-defense was planned six months ago, it was well within the scope of self-defense then as it is now - the rocket fire (as previously mentioned) has been ongoing for some years now. If this war was planned six months ago I'm sure that no exact date was given, especially a date that would fall directly in line with the Jewish holiday of Chanukah.
5. As Israel continues it's strike on Hamas, it's leaders hide cowardly as their people (remembering they are the government) die. What kind of community leaders are they? Palestinians blindly loyal to them run around the streets of Gaza protecting themselves by hiding in UN buildings, homes filled with women and children and even so callously using children as direct human shields.
6. Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005 with no plans to return to the land. This was a bold attempt by the then PM Ariel Sharon (who received much criticism) to broker some sort of step towards peace with the Palestinian population. His efforts were responded with a bloody overthrow that saw Hamas militants throwing their rival "moderate" Fatah from the rooftops of Gaza buildings.
7. If Israel was committing genocide and indiscriminately killing the civillian population, the death toll of women and children would be far higher. The Gaza Strip is small with a population of 1.5 million people.
8. Israel is involved in a war of self-defense. The citizens of Israel deserve the right to live in peace and security within internationally recognised borders just as the Palestinian population does.
This is only possible with international recognition of terrorism as a barrier to peace, the disarmement of Hamas and the reinstatement of the moderate Fatah Party and leader Mahmoud Abbas who has continued to hold dialogue with the Israeli leadership even during this current conflict.