Ok, lemme try and explain from my point of view.
3 Israelie teenagers go missing on the 12th of June, this causes Netanyahu (PM) to blame Hamas for this abduction and quickly after that the White House confirms the statement of the PM. However, organizations like Hamas etc always publicly claim attacks or actions, but this time they have denied all involvement with this abduction.
The media has since labeled the Hamas accusations as a fact. What follows is the burning of 16 year old Palestinian boy, while he is still alive, which was supposedly done by several Israeli fanatics.
Edit: Amjad's earlier posted article describes my ideas about the situation as well. http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/07/0...&hq_e=el&hq_m=3288693&hq_l=13&hq_v=e0a2a63d45
Bold isn't true, there are times (you can easily find yourself) where terror organizations denied credit for things they have done. Usually they deny it when they know it will result in a complete loss of sympathy from others, other than their hardliners when it comes to retaliation.
I.E: Al Qaeda (Osama Bin Laden) denied credit for 9/11 until years after the invasion... Why? Because he knew taking credit at that period of time would definitely result in his and his organization's death. He was trying to use the legal system to delay any form of retaliation and knew that how difficult it would be to prove that he caused it in court.
Just because terrorist organizations tend to be out of touch with reality, don't mean they are completely stupid, they will using legal systems to their if possible benefit.
No... I see no reason for Hamas to take responsibility for the deaths of those teens considering it would mean what I said above.
Utterly ridiculous. Israel has enough firepower to destroy the entire Arab world. And that's not even counting their nuclear capability.
What does there being "3 times more arabs in Egypt alone then there are Jews in the world" have to do with anything at all? That's like justifying that Jains be allowed to take out Hindus or Tibetans be allowed to take out the Chinese because they are a minority.
If "Palestinian" is a contrived label, then by your same idiotic logic, so is "Israel". You also just inferred that Israeli Arabs aren't really Israelis.
From a military perspective, this isn't true. When he said there are 3 times more Arabs in Egypt he was referring to military applications. Wave tactics, while heavy in loss, is still something that can and will be used by inferior forces that have the number advantage. See Korean War.
Yeah but I think the MIT professor is the best authority on this:
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/09/330183774/the-rockets-from-hamas-and-the-iron-dome-that-could-use-patching
Edit: This part is ridiculous:
Gaza is incredibly dense and even he reluctantly acknowledges that earlier in the interview. More excuses to justify why Israel uses an army to handle crimes rather than operate with swat teams and root out who they want. Does the U.S. use air force against majority black neighborhoods if a white man dies and a black is believed to be responsible? I find it amazing how people do whatever it takes to blame the weaker side especially when the other side has more resources to handle the matter properly.
So, one guy is how we are going to determine the success rate of the Dome? Do you know how he came to his conclusion? Because the Iron Dome is programmed to intercept mainly "threatening" projectiles I am pretty sure. There are multiple sources claiming different success rates from the 5% you mentioned to 70% to 90%.
But then, I would say each source seems to be using different definitions for successful "intercept".
Some use:
Disarms missile by knocking off it's trajectory
Some use, full on destruction of the warhead of the intercepted projectile
And then some use interceptions as disarming projectile
There is a major difference, though. Whenever the international community (i.e. the UN) has tried to do anything to the detriment of Israel, it has always been vetoed by the US. The same has not been the case for Palestinians.
Considering General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding (and can pass whether U.S votes no or yes), I am going to assume you mean Security Council resolutions.
Can you source me when the UN have made resolutions against just Palestinians that were allowed to go through? Majority, if not all of the resolutions passed against Palestinians (including PLO and Hamas) typically condemned Israel as well. The resolutions U.S typically vetoed in the past were ones condemning Israel only as if they were the only one's in the wrong at the time the resolutions was made.
There are resolutions that U.S has allowed through and even voted for when it comes to condemning and ordering Israel to stop what they are doing, so your second sentence is false lol.