2014 Israel-Gaza Conflict [UN: 1,525+ Palestinian dead, mostly civilian; 66 Israeli]

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So I make a general comment without quoting or calling anyone out and I'm flinging personal attacks? You can't possibly believe what you type. People like you make these threads such a pain to post in, I've been hesitant to comment because I know there's a few bad apples who will attack anyone who doesn't share their viewpoint.

You are welcome to your viewpoints. I just don't understand it and disagree with it. You are welcome to posit arguments to change my view, or add to the discussion.
 
Sorry, I was making a general comment, not calling anyone out specifically. I think both sides are to blame but this thread is incredibly pro-Hamas, it's to the point that some posters are incapable of assigning blame to a terrorist organization who likes to fire rockets at Israeli civilians and kill their women/children too. I just think Israel is tired of this nonsense and is using extreme force to deal with it. That doesn't make it right, but you have to look at both sides of the coin.

Rockets that have killed 28 people since they started over 10 years ago? Why, Israel's response is entirely justified then! Never mind the fact that the rockets are retaliation. Israel are the aggressors here.
 
There has not been a single pro-Hamas poster in this thread to my knowledge. If you can find a post in which people directly endorse the actions of Hamas, please quote it and bring it to my attention. Otherwise, you are lying to create a false equivalency.
Pro-Hamas may have been the wrong words to use, anti-Israel is more like it.

Not blaming you since I should have articulated my point better but maybe you shouldn't jump straight into "he's lying or trolling" mode.

Oh wow, look at this:

I honestly don't think Israel has the right to exist anymore. Or at least under the current leadership.

Right on time
 
Pro-Hamas may have been the wrong words to use, anti-Israel is more like it.

Not blaming you since I should have articulated my point better but maybe you shouldn't jump straight into "he's lying or trolling" mode.

Of course people are anti-Israel. Hamas is just a terrorist organization with limited to no capacity to inflict serious harm. Israel is an apartheid state illegally occupying the territory of another peoples and murdering their civilians. Why should the split in opinion be 50/50? I apologize for being blunt, but my overwhelming experience of those who defend Israel is constant "Hamas is just as bad!" or "why don't you care about Syria?" statements. I'm tired of them. They sicken me on a basic moral level. I do not ever wish to hear them levied as a genuine defense of Israel's actions. In the event there is a genuine defense for what Israel is doing right now, I am more than willing to listen to it; but a precondition for that is that the other person justifies these actions with careful consideration.
 
Rockets that have killed 28 people since they started over 10 years ago? Why, Israel's response is entirely justified then! Never mind the fact that the rockets are retaliation. Israel are the aggressors here.
Are you really trying to downplay the loss of human life because less people have been killed by rocket attacks from Hamas? Wow. Also, you're ignoring the psychological damage these things cause.

Both sides are to blame, all I said is that Israel is probably tired of this crap and is using extreme force to deal with the situation. They've had to fight to survive as a nation since 1948, it's all they know. Not saying what they're doing is right, just that you have to look at things from both sides.
 
Why doesn't it have the right to exist?
I dunno man, maybe because they constantly steal land from the palestinians, cripple them economically and indiscriminately murder women and children? But I digress, like I said in the part everyone ignored, that likely won't happen so the best I'd hope for is the insane government to go away.
 
I do wonder when people are considered terrorists.
Is it when they bomb innocent people?
Is it when they tell people to leave their homes or they'll get blown to pieces?

I don't know. It just seems to me that you can only be a terrorist if you have an islamic name.

In war it's just a way to dehumanize the other side.
 
Are you really trying to downplay the loss of human life because less people have been killed by rocket attacks from Hamas? Wow. Also, you're ignoring the psychological damage these things cause.

Both sides are to blame, all I said is that Israel is probably tired of this crap and is using extreme force to deal with the situation. They've had to fight to survive as a nation since 1948, it's all they know. Not saying what they're doing is right, just that you have to look at things from both sides.

What crap, exactly? What could they be tired of to warrant the killings of innocent children?
 
The strange thing is an attack like this helps Hamas much more than it helps Israel. What benefit does Israel even get from this? Did they really destroy enough weapon caches to make the public opinion hit worth it? Seems doubtful.
 
Whoa unrest in the middle east. Shocking.

They provoke each other, IDF eventually goes in, HAMAS wants as many casualties on their side as possible so they can point to how horrible Israel is and gain support. IDF obliges. I mean how many times have we seen this? Same shit.
 
So I make a general comment without quoting or calling anyone out and I'm flinging personal attacks? You can't possibly believe what you type. People like you make these threads such a pain to post in, I've been hesitant to comment because I know there's a few bad apples who will attack anyone who doesn't share their viewpoint.

I was making a general comment too. I just quoted your post.
 
Whoa unrest in the middle east. Shocking.

They provoke each other, IDF eventually goes in, HAMAS wants as many casualties on their side as possible so they can point to how horrible Israel is and gain support. IDF obliges. I mean how many times have we seen this? Same shit.

Yeah at this point you would think Israel would be smart enough to know that this is exactly what Hamas wants. But I guess they either do not care, or do care and are trying to just exterminate them at this point.
 
Terrorist state? I don't think so. Also, you need to calm down with the insults man.

A lunatic state at the very least. They've battered the Palestinian peoples for decades upon decades, engage in psychological warfare as well the stealing of land and expansion of their borders. They're also not willing to take real steps in solving the situation.
 
What crap, exactly? What could they be tired of to warrant the killings of innocent children?
Oh I don't know, maybe having rockets fired into their territory? Having their people live in fear? Seeing people die?

Stop trying to twist my words too, nowhere have I condoned the killing of innocents on either side or used the flimsy "shit happens in war" excuse. What I said is that they're using extreme force but that doesn't make their response right.

I was making a general comment too. I just quoted your post.
Now I know that you're a troll, thanks, I can add you to my ignore list now
 
Can't say I blame Israel, given the Arabs have had two major wars to get rid of them. Though that is no excuse for the current Palestinian death toll, it is disgusting to see people used as human shields by Hamas and equally disgusting to see the extremist elements inside Israel pushing for this slaughter.

Can't we all get along?
 
The strange thing is an attack like this helps Hamas much more than it helps Israel. What benefit does Israel even get from this? Did they really destroy enough weapon caches to make the public opinion hit worth it? Seems doubtful.

What benefit do most tyrants ever get from hurting and murdering people? It's just the dark side of the human psyche, the ape that bites off the face of another.
 
The fact that none of the international leaders has said anything against such an atrocious attack against citizens baffles me.

Fuck this world.
 
Oh I don't know, maybe having rockets fired into their territory? Having their people live in fear? Seeing people die?

Stop trying to twist my words too, nowhere have I condoned the killing of innocents on either side or used the flimsy "shit happens in war" excuse. What I said is that they're using extreme force but that doesn't make their response right.
Well this post says: The murder of innocent children is okay because they were attacked by rockets themself. That's condoning the murder of innocent people...
 
Are you really trying to downplay the loss of human life because less people have been killed by rocket attacks from Hamas?

The IDF's defence has an effective rate of 99.99% of protecting its citizens without the need for the grand loss of life of innocent civilians.
 
Ultimately all this has done has made the families of 40 people more radicalised against Israel, and regardless of your stance of Israel, Palestine or any two state system, these strikes are bitterly fruitless and are just going to lead to more airstrikes in the future.
 
I've heard the argument that the British had no right to give the Jews someone else's country.

This is somewhat unfair an accusation. Prior to the British, there had never been a Palestinian nation-state. It wasn't like the British conquered a Palestinian nation and divided up land to give to the Jewish people - prior to British arrival, it had been the territory of the Ottoman Empire, extending back 400 years. Before that, the territory of the Mamluk Sultanate. What's more, there had always been Jewish residents in Mandatory Palestine - around 800,000 at the time the British left in 1947. Presumably, if the non-Jewish peoples of Mandatory Palestine had the right to statehood, the right also extends to the Jewish people.

The real failure lies with the unwillingness of the United Nations to provide a proper peace-keeping force to enforce the provisions set out in the 1947 Partition Plan. Britain was never going to be able to do it alone; they had insufficient forces and there was no willingness to help at a domestic level.
 
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