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Israel launched over 900 attacks on Gaza in May, killed hundreds of Palestinians, and displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians. The UN estimate is 461 housi

Israel launched over 900 attacks on Gaza in May, killed hundreds of Palestinians, and displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians. The UN estimate is 461 housing and commercial units were destroyed by Israel's bombing of Gaza. I don't dispute even more could have been killed by Israel and more destroyed by Israel if the United Nations Security Council did not call for an ending to it and that if that did not happen "it wouldn't be a place anymore...not something anyone walks away from". People can go and look at the videotaped news reports from Gaza after the bombings and judge for themselves.

bawolff 5y ago
I'm not saying there wasn't an armed conflict or that people didn't die. Just when people say something was mass bombed it implies something very different.
seoaeu 5y ago
A quick google search reveals that the US launched 2800000 ground attack missions during the Vietnam war, dropping 15000000000 pounds of bombs. That works out to an average of several hundred attacks per day for two decades. I also encourage you to look at Wikipedia's List of ongoing armed conflicts [1], which lists the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as a "Minor Conflict" given its scale in comparison to the other entries. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...
- antod 5y ago
  Seems a bit over the top to use the Vietnam War as a benchmark for the size of any bombing campaign, unless the benchmark is going for "largest ever by quite a margin".
- rhizome 5y ago
  You're indulging in the fallacy of relative privation and trying to change the subject for some reason.
LegitShady 5y ago
there were fewer people killed than bombs dropped - it was a highly pinpointed affair beyond any sort of 'mass bombing' terminology, while at the same time the government of gaza WAS mass launching artillery rockets at israeli cities. Truly upside-down world.
starik36 5y ago
> Israel launched over 900 attacks on Gaza This has a super simple solution. 5 minutes after Gaza (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, whoever is in charge) stops bombing Israel with missiles and rockets (which it has done since 2007), there will be no more conflict in Gaza.
- GordonS 5y ago
  This is demonstrably false, as Israel has in the past completely ignored Hamas' ceasefires.
  - seoaeu 5y ago
    And vice versa. At the moment, Hamas' desired strategy seems to be to launch a salvo of rockets and then demand a ceasefire until they can reload for the next salvo
  - devcpp 5y ago
    You can't expect Hamas to declare ceasefire after every attack then violate it again and Israel to just stand idle.

bawolff 5y ago

I'm not saying there wasn't an armed conflict or that people didn't die. Just when people say something was mass bombed it implies something very different.

seoaeu 5y ago

A quick google search reveals that the US launched 2800000 ground attack missions during the Vietnam war, dropping 15000000000 pounds of bombs. That works out to an average of several hundred attacks per day for two decades. I also encourage you to look at Wikipedia's List of ongoing armed conflicts [1], which lists the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as a "Minor Conflict" given its scale in comparison to the other entries. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...

antod 5y ago
Seems a bit over the top to use the Vietnam War as a benchmark for the size of any bombing campaign, unless the benchmark is going for "largest ever by quite a margin".
rhizome 5y ago
You're indulging in the fallacy of relative privation and trying to change the subject for some reason.

LegitShady 5y ago

there were fewer people killed than bombs dropped - it was a highly pinpointed affair beyond any sort of 'mass bombing' terminology, while at the same time the government of gaza WAS mass launching artillery rockets at israeli cities. Truly upside-down world.

starik36 5y ago

> Israel launched over 900 attacks on Gaza This has a super simple solution. 5 minutes after Gaza (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, whoever is in charge) stops bombing Israel with missiles and rockets (which it has done since 2007), there will be no more conflict in Gaza.

GordonS 5y ago
This is demonstrably false, as Israel has in the past completely ignored Hamas' ceasefires.
- seoaeu 5y ago
  And vice versa. At the moment, Hamas' desired strategy seems to be to launch a salvo of rockets and then demand a ceasefire until they can reload for the next salvo
- devcpp 5y ago
  You can't expect Hamas to declare ceasefire after every attack then violate it again and Israel to just stand idle.