Almost the entire world is critical of Israel. The Israelis see enemies under their beds. The Palestinian people, including children, are called enemies of Israel for good reason, seeing how they have been treated by the brutal Israeli occupation. Indeed, very many sympathize with Israel's enemies.
The English media are particularly partial to Zionism, after all, putting an homeland for European Jews right in the middle of Palestine was a British idea in the first place.
Israel has no right to exist ... is THIS the message you want people to believe in ?
And I suggest you take a look at the Hamas Charter (Hamas being the ruling power in Gaza, and an internationally recognised terrorist organisation !!).
Hamas is committed to Israel's destruction. THIS is the power that, every now and again, fires rockets into Israeli territory, with the hope of killing as many Israeli citizens as they can manage.
This includes women and children. Or .. must they, too, be at the mercy of terrorist scum ??
Hamas has moved on from its charter and no longer call for the destruction of Israel, I understand.
Link please!!!
Greg
Almost the entire world is critical of Israel. The Israelis see enemies under their beds. The Palestinian people, including children, are called enemies of Israel for good reason, seeing how they have been treated by the brutal Israeli occupation. Indeed, very many sympathize with Israel's enemies.
The English media are particularly partial to Zionism, after all, putting an homeland for European Jews right in the middle of Palestine was a British idea in the first place.
Israel has no right to exist ... is THIS the message you want people to believe in ?
And I suggest you take a look at the Hamas Charter (Hamas being the ruling power in Gaza, and an internationally recognised terrorist organisation !!).
Hamas is committed to Israel's destruction. THIS is the power that, every now and again, fires rockets into Israeli territory, with the hope of killing as many Israeli citizens as they can manage.
This includes women and children. Or .. must they, too, be at the mercy of terrorist scum ??
Hamas has moved on from its charter and no longer call for the destruction of Israel, I understand.
Not as of 2014.
You have something more recent??
Greg
I do know one thing; were a country's military occupying my land for half a century, massacring thousands in defiance of all international, sniping at children, destroying our infrastructure, hospitals, water treatment plants, schools, factories, bulldozing our homes with JCBs, arresting our children and keeping them for interrogation without legal counsel or family present, preventing pregnant women from attending maternity clinics, humiliating my people at checkpoints in our own homeland, ... well, I would want that enemy destroyed, wouldn't you?
A couple of points.
One ... Hamas is
a terrorist group, existing to attack Israel. It regards Israel as its mortal enemy. It commits terrorist attack after terrorist attack against Israeli territory, not caring how many civilians it may kill in making those attacks.
It has, as its foundling Charter states, a commitment to seeing Israel destroyed (.. and I've yet to see evidence that this was ever revoked, because, of course, IT HASN'T BEEN).
The State of Israel is internationally recognised as legitimate,
and as such, it has every imaginable moral and legal right to defend itself from terrorist attacks. This it does.
Two ... considering the first point ... what's the way of things, when Hamas and Israel clash militarily ? Simple. Hamas attacks first. The extent of reaction varies ... but, it is ALWAYS A REACTION. What Hamas brings upon itself, it earns through its initial and unprompted attacks upon Israel. Hamas attacks, Israel responds.
Now, you may not like the extent of that response. But, they ARE JUST THAT.
Were Hamas to renounce violence, were they to give up on all attempts to be killers of Israelis, sending suicide bombers on to the streets of Tel Aviv, or, if they stopped firing hundreds of rockets into Israel as a disgusting provocation .. then, Israel would not respond. There'd be nothing to respond to !
But Hamas will never give up on its terrorism, because terrorists is WHAT THEY ARE. I daresay they could no more give up their bloodlust than they could give up on breathing.