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> You'd do well to remember there are two sides to any conflict (as my parents drilled into us whenever my brother and I would blame each other). What if the e

> You'd do well to remember there are two sides to any conflict (as my parents drilled into us whenever my brother and I would blame each other). What if the entire world was watching while you shaved your brothers head? Your lies would be pointless, because the entire world has seen what you were doing. > In my opinion you can see Israel exercising serious restraint Almost 200 dead in days. If you call that restraint, I think it's you who's gone off the deep end. Restraint would be doing nothing because barely anything has been done to you. Or shooting 10 Palestinian freedom fighters. That would be restraint. Firing missiles into a populated city isn't restraint. > Hamas on the other hand is indiscriminately firing over 3000 rockets at Israel civilians. Surely you jest. Those fireworks do almost nothing. A single Israeli missile is more deadly than 3000 Hamas rockets, so you have it backwards. > Now there is a big power imbalance here, and I feel for the Palestinians No you don't. Quit the propaganda. > but they're hardly the good guys here. That's terrorism, plain and simple. How is defending yourself terrorism? They're slowly been driven off the map. They should be firing 3000 rockets every day, and the world should be sending them more so they can fight for their families. Next you'll tell me that the Jews who fought back against Hitler were terrorists.

eloff 5y ago
> Almost 200 dead in days. If you call that restraint, I think it's you who's gone off the deep end. Restraint would be doing nothing because barely anything has been done to you. Or shooting 10 Palestinian freedom fighters. That would be restraint. Firing missiles into a populated city isn't restraint. It's totally reasonable to attack your enemy with the intent of crippling their capabilities of harming you. Standard fare in any conflict. Doing that when the enemy is using their own population as a human shield and only having 200 casualties is an achievement of sorts. > Surely you jest. Those fireworks do almost nothing. A single Israeli missile is more deadly than 3000 Hamas rockets, so you have it backwards. Thank God they only have rockets and not the military power of the IDF. I'm pretty sure they'd use those nukes if they had them. As I said there's a big power imbalance here. But it's not the effectiveness of the attacks that determine their morality. > No you don't. Quit the propaganda. I don't appreciate you calling my feelings propaganda or claiming to understand my state of mind better than me. Both ridiculous claims. > How is defending yourself terrorism? The IDF only attacked them after they fired 500 rockets at Israeli cities, an act of terror in every sense of the definition. That's not defending yourself. What the Israelis are doing, that is defending yourself. > Next you'll tell me that the Jews who fought back against Hitler were terrorists. If they were attacking civilian targets with the intent of causing innocent casualties - sure, that'd be terrorism. I'm unaware of any instances of that happening, but I don't claim to know everything.

eloff 5y ago

> Almost 200 dead in days. If you call that restraint, I think it's you who's gone off the deep end. Restraint would be doing nothing because barely anything has been done to you. Or shooting 10 Palestinian freedom fighters. That would be restraint. Firing missiles into a populated city isn't restraint. It's totally reasonable to attack your enemy with the intent of crippling their capabilities of harming you. Standard fare in any conflict. Doing that when the enemy is using their own population as a human shield and only having 200 casualties is an achievement of sorts. > Surely you jest. Those fireworks do almost nothing. A single Israeli missile is more deadly than 3000 Hamas rockets, so you have it backwards. Thank God they only have rockets and not the military power of the IDF. I'm pretty sure they'd use those nukes if they had them. As I said there's a big power imbalance here. But it's not the effectiveness of the attacks that determine their morality. > No you don't. Quit the propaganda. I don't appreciate you calling my feelings propaganda or claiming to understand my state of mind better than me. Both ridiculous claims. > How is defending yourself terrorism? The IDF only attacked them after they fired 500 rockets at Israeli cities, an act of terror in every sense of the definition. That's not defending yourself. What the Israelis are doing, that is defending yourself. > Next you'll tell me that the Jews who fought back against Hitler were terrorists. If they were attacking civilian targets with the intent of causing innocent casualties - sure, that'd be terrorism. I'm unaware of any instances of that happening, but I don't claim to know everything.