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Originally Posted by matteos
Rubbish.
There has been a huge wave of violence from Palestinians against Israeli citizens recently.. Stabbings, car jackings, shootings, murder etc etc.
Nobody talks about it..But when Israel goes in... Then that's all we hear about.
Funny that Egypt also has a blockade against Palestine, nobody talks about that. No Arab country wants the Palestinians. They all want them in that little area to make Israel look bad and because they also hate them.
Palestinians accepted Hamas, accepted death to the Jews as part of their constitution Palestine fires rockets into Israel daily and fires these rockets from hospitals and schools. Yes, Hamas is not much different to ISIS, they are perhaps less extreme, but not by that much.
If you think the story in Israel and Palestine is one of pure Israeli victimization of Palestine you are mistaken. Fact is, Israel often restrains itself. Other nations would have bulldozed Palestine into the sea.
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I'm glad there was an 'if' in the next-to-last sentence. No, I don't think a silly thing like that. Cute rhetorical move, though. What if I wonder
if you really favor punishing family members as hostages for the misdeeds of dead people, without anything remotely like due process of law?
As for my 'not criticizing the Palestinians,' if a spokesman comes on the board and defends knifing civilians in the street, I will criticize him. Meanwhile, I was criticizing Ike for what Ike said here. BTW, you are doing just what I was talking about with Ike--bringing up the badness of the other side as a defense, instead of trying to justify what the Israelis actually do (which gets a bit sticky, I fear).
Is there anything Israel could do that would not be 'jusftified' by how rotten the Palestinians are? I get the distinct impression, from your last sentence, that you would not blame them if they abandoned all restraint and went to out-and-out genocide. The idea is always 'thinkable,' as you yourself demonstrate....