Originally Posted by
shortbuspoker
How then do you stop Hamas from firing rockets into Israel? They intentionally house the rockets in and fire them from residential neighborhoods. If the Palestinian people will not stand up to Hamas and force them to stop then the general populous of Gaza will continues to bear the brunt of the punishment.
This is a well planned tactic that Hamas uses. The concept of a human shield is not new. They have taken it to another level in that if Israel chooses not to retaliate into the populated ares then they have free reign to fire missiles all day long. If the Israelis kill civilians then Hamas gets the sympathy from the deaths that they themselves brought about.
Would you rather the IDF roll tanks into Gaza and go door to door? What would the body count be at that point? There is no clean way to bring an end to this unless the Palestinian people themselves stop Hamas.
Also:
The little map in your sig is cute. You make it seem as if Israel is just out taking land like it's going out of style. Just imagine how much more land they would have if the U.S. had not made them give back the majority of what they won during the Six Day War(in which they were attacked). Bottom line is that if Israel wanted the entire West Bank they would take it and kill every Arab and Muslim that stood in their way.
War is ugly yes. But as per Israel wants its cake and eat it.... They have once again levelled parts of Gaza in order to get at Hamas, but in doing so have also spilled pools of innocent blood. Now before this current attack, Gaza was hell on earth - and has been for years....People are just existing there, not living. They have zero prosperity, they survive off very basic foods - and only have 6 hours of electricity per day..And they're doing all this while crammed in like sardines with nowhere to go...
There is no doubt Hamas are fighting dirty, but how can they fight any other way? They can't trade bullets with a military which has the finest equipment that America has to offer... And the truth is that none of us really know how many civilians are being put into harms way by Hamas... But I can say that the independent observers that are on the ground mostly say that Israel are vastly exaggerating the human shield allegation.
Nobody is lifting a finger to help them out of this mess either. The world as a whole has turned a blind on their misery. (the worlds governments - not its citizens) They are on their own with only a ragtag militant group that will stand up and fight for land that is being stolen from them on a daily basis...
And at this point - Hamas are only asking for basic human rights for the rockets to stop. Give their people a little freedom, take their foot from the throat of the citizens of Gaza. Then things can calm down..
I'm not saying Palestine isn't responsible for its fair share of this mess...But for fucks sake - stop killing small children who have done absolutely nothing to deserve this.
Also re my little "cute" map...That has nothing to do with the 6 day war, or the land in my map...That war was against Egypt - Syria - Jordan...So being thankful that they didn't permanently occupy them countries once the war was 'won', is a bit ridiculous...You don't get to permanently keep the country that you defeat in a war...Also it was Israel who launched a 'preemptive' strike during that conflict - and not the other way round.