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After more than two weeks of intense fighting in Gaza, both Hamas and Israel have racked up significant military achievements, albeit at the cost of hundreds of lives.
I refuse to call them Palestinians as they don't live in "Palestine" (whats that?), neither is "Gaza" a country with due human rights as provided in the UN charter of Nations.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has voted overwhelmingly to recognize a Palestinian state, but the Palestinians still face enormous limitations: They don't control their borders, airspace or trade, they have separate and competing governments in Gaza and the West Bank, and they have no unified army or police.
In 2012 we had this Gaza thread going with live feed watching the "quelling", remember? Do we have that up this time?
originally posted by: intrptr
Artillery to the East, Israeli tanks and troops to the north, east and south, naval gunfire from the sea. The IDF air force and drones buzzing incessantly overhead. Where to run, the "Gazans" live in a prison with thirty foot walls, no mans land and barb wire with towers and machine guns. The place is sealed, there is no place to evacuate to.
If the "citizens" of Gaza had one tank, one ship, one runway, one fighter jet it would be bombed to shreds in moments. As it is all they are able got do is piss on trays and dry it in the sun, mixing urea nitrate with sugar to power their piss and sugar bottle rockets in some kind of vain protest towards their oppressive occupiers, hoping to hell they fall outside the fence and maybe hit something.
What defense, what threat? The "Gazans" are as much a threat as the jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Is that where they learned this behavior?
Who are the Nazis now?
originally posted by: intrepid
originally posted by: beezzer
Does it really matter?
Yeah it matters. You DO know that the Mujahedin of the 80's were the Taliban of this millennium? It seems like this is an exclusive bunch.
originally posted by: switchqm8
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
originally posted by: switchqm8
I am really sick of hearing about schools hospitals ect getting destroyed because they say they are hiding weapons there..Was any proof given to support their claims i did not read all 7 pages. Again i ask if the Israel military is so great why not send in teams ie seal like to deal with the real rebels. it is like sending a warship to take out a pontoon boat.talk about overkill and dont they get it they are just creating more hate against them with every woman and child slaughtered..but all governments need to bogymen/terrorists to justify the wars and keep that foreign aid a rolling in sick and disgusted. For the record i do not support hamas either. Is hamas cilivans or do they have a military also?
Nobody can directly link the school from the reports because the name of the school is not in any of them. If can be heavily inferred that it was the correct school as it was a UN school in the town and the UN directly addressed reports of missiles being found in a UN school in the town. Not sure how many UN schools this town has but it is not a large town so could not be many. Town is named Beit Hanun.
ok thank u so how can Israel be so sure there were weapons in there? I would like the un to show proof/facts that there were actually weapons being hidden that would at least make a lil justification to the strikes but again i don't see why they can not small teams they are not going against a military right?
originally posted by: beezzer
Is it a war crime to hide/shelter missiles in schools, hospitals, mosques?
originally posted by: soulwaxer
originally posted by: thesaneone
a reply to: DarknStormy
That would probably kick off ww3.
Yeah, I bet you can't wait.
soulwaxer
WAKE THE F UP PEOPLE! It's a PR war....those that can spin it their way in the eyes of the world win the war.
originally posted by: Agit8dChop
a reply to: daaskapital
What an absolute load of anti-israeli propaganda. Use your heads people..
Your going to tell me that Israel - in day light - in public view bombed a UN Shelter killing and massacring people... yet in 2 minutes of aljazeera not one victim had any blood on them ?
Why would Israel go to so much trouble to warn civilians in the past to get out of harms way then bomb the UN?
Why would Israel stay in communication all day with the school only to bomb it - in public view?
It doesn't make sense unless you ignore logic and have a rabbies like view against everything Israel.
This is a case of pure Palestinian propaganda to feed anti Israeli blood-lust.
Gullible fools, if a bomb hit a shelter butchering people you'd have blood and guts and footage everywhere.
Not 9 separate pieces of footage of ''victims'' with not a drop of blood between them.
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: intrepid
Like I previously stated. . .
The US is supplying Israel.
Iran, Qatar is supplying Hamas.
Hamas is fighting Israel.
Israel is fighting back.
War sucks.
Pick a side. Buy a t-shirt, wave a flag.
There will be no real change until all sides want peace.
Hamas doesn't.
Israel doesn't.
The US doesn't.
Qatar doesn't.
Iran doesn't.
Wake me when the world grows the #### up and wants peace.
Because I am getting sick and tired of the one-sided bull spit!
Hamas this.
Israel that.
Evil Israel threads.
Evil Hamas threads.
I tried to keep rational in all of this. I tried to be respectful through all of this. It taxes me sometimes.
So keep your war. Keep rooting for one side.
I'm going to pray for peace, light a candle, and look forward. Because this "gotcha" bull spit is getting old.
You and I are both too damned old to be concerned about war anyway.