RollieFingers wrote: » I think someone who calls other posters clowns because they have a different opinion than them can also be classed as a "faceless keyboard warrior"!
speedboatchase wrote: » That's a crazy assumption. I live in the Middle East, I know Palestinians. I have plenty of compassion for Palestinians and I think it's a tragedy that those in Gaza have to live under Hamas, which uses its resources to put their lives in danger through $1000 missiles that invite retaliation on the populace.
davmol wrote: » You do have compassion for palestinians??You condone Israels use of random execution and their tactics and equate all of palestine as hamas. Very strange compassion.
speedboatchase wrote: » And the first question?
speedboatchase wrote: » I just explained how I don't equate all of Palestine as Hamas. I literally just said that. What is 'random execution'? An execution is a capital punishment within a chosen country.
FTA69 wrote: » None. They see all Israelis as military reservists. However, I'm not supporting things like suicide attacks and whatnot. I'm not so ignorant as to ignore the context in which they occur though.
I Heart Internet wrote: » It would have helped them this time if Hamas hadn't kidnapped three israeli boys and shot them,
I Heart Internet wrote: » ditto the morons who murdered the palistinian boy in revenge.
I Heart Internet wrote: » But what really went against them was the lobbing of rockets into Israel.
speedboatchase wrote: » I understand the context, but my point is that Hamas is accomplishing nothing for those who voted for them by firing rockets into Israe;, expensive rockets that are swatted away by Iron Dome. They're inviting retaliatory attacks and at this moment they have the option of Egypt's proposed truce or - considering the status quo will not sustain - a ground assault from Israel. Surely you protect your people and sign the truce?
Buzz Killington the third wrote: » It seems people don't really care. Sure in Ireland, there's been massive cuts to charity organisations that didn't even make news because Garth Brooks has taken over the country!
Karl Stein wrote: » One wonders if our IDF supporters would be such doe-eyed fanboys if the people in the Gaza Strip and WB were primarily white Christians.
davmol wrote: » People can justify the slaughter to themselves by tarring the palestinians as Muslim extremists and brainless fanatics that want to wipe out Israel.
davmol wrote: » Agree.People can justify the slaughter to themselves by tarring the palestinians as Muslim extremists and brainless fanatics that want to wipe out Israel. The fact is most palestinians want to prosper,want freedom ,want a land they can call their own but if they try and assert themselves they are beaten down and attacked.To paint them all as terrorists eases peoples sadness at the situation.
davmol wrote: » I think you will be hard pressed to find many Hamas fanbois as you put it.Alot of people pointing out how brutal teh israeli system is and after innocent palestinians(not hamas)have been slaughtered collectively for one groups policies.
Israel has resumed its air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, after Israel's brief truce was met with continuing rocket fire. Israel had earlier accepted an Egyptian ceasefire proposal and halted operations on Tuesday morning. But the armed wing of Hamas rejected the initiative as a "surrender".
Rightwing wrote: » The israelis must be loving hamas. hamas firing in rockets that aren't worth a sh!t and then the israelis using it as an excuse to butcher hundreds.
I Heart Internet wrote: » The west (rightly) stood up against Milosevic' (nominally Christian) Serbia when it was brutalising muslims in Kosova. So I don't buy this simplistic suggestion.
I Heart Internet wrote: » You'd think they'ed stop firing them so.
Karl Stein wrote: » Irrelevant.
Rightwing wrote: » If they had intelligence they would. The scenario reminds me of a cruel person and a stupid animal. The animal won't do what the person wants. Person gives it a savage beating. Then stops. Gives the animal a choice, still won't do it, and another beating. Repeat cycle.
I Heart Internet wrote: » I think Hamas are not dumb animals. They have the wit to know what is the right thing to do, yet they continue to attack Israel and endanger their own civilians.
old hippy wrote: » Is it easier to dehumanise the Palestinians? Rather than see them as a people who have been violently oppressed?
Tony EH wrote: » You missed the part about the "cruel person" dismantling parts of the "animals" cage and reducing its living space continuously.
I Heart Internet wrote: » Hamas could have stopped the bloodshed this morning, if they were so inclined. Instead they meet the offer of a truce with rockets.