Israel has invaded Gaza...

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Originally Posted by finnbow

I understand full well the dangers of any Nazi analogy, but there are undeniable similarities between the two.

To wit, this just in:

GAZA CITY — A U.N.-run school crowded with Palestinian evacuees in the northern part of the Gaza Strip came under shelling on Thursday, leaving at least 15 people dead and more than 100 wounded, Palestinian officials said.

Several shells hit the main building and courtyard of the elementary school run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Beit Hanoun, witnesses and Palestinian officials said. They said the school was filled with women and children who had fled their homes to escape more than two weeks of fighting between Israel and Hamas, the militant Palestinian Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...6ed_story.html

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Are you serious? Seeking whatever poor safety might be offered by the UN flag, perhaps?

And since when is it a defense for a crime that someone else purportedly made no effort to defend the victims?

And what sort of defensive effort is even conceivable? Were they supposed to destroy the Israeli artillery with counter-battery fire? Deploy a phaser to shoot-down the incoming shells? Or what?

Your arguments are total Israeli-apologist garbage.

So being in an area where two parties are warring with each other is dangerous. Nothing terribly revealing here, especially when the Palestinians insist on conducting military operations in neighborhoods, mosques, homes, hospitals, etc. If the Palestinians don't like the Israelis attacking them, I guess they shouldn't have kicked the recent cease fire agreement to the curb. Or maybe they should stop lobbing missiles into Israel that target Israeli citizens.

By the way, Finn, do you get just as upset when Hamas rockets force the Israeli citizens into bomb shelters? Or are you just upset that the Israeli response isn't "proportional"?