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Originally Posted by roachboy
source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/735959.html
the israeli incursion really needs to stop.
there is no justification for this kind of collective punishment.
note in the above that some 200 containers of food are still being blocked from entering gaza
the main power station remains out of commission.
there really is no possible justification for this kind of action. |
Before the incursion there was about 500 rockets fired in to Israel from Palestine in the past year.
The attack on the post that caused the incursion was led by Hamas, which is the organization that heads the Palestenian government (elected by the people there).
Now would you not consider that a declaration of war, in any other country?
If Hamas wants to run a government, they have to stop being terrorists first. You can not with one hand assault a country
daily and expect the other side to sit there and not respond ever.
What has Palestenians done since Israel a year ago left their territory, leaving them free to rule themselves? On the very first day that they left, they fired rockets into Israeli towns. That is not settlements, but pre-1967 territory, non 'contested' land. How much have they built, and grown, err wait no they dig a tunnel and Hamas terrorists (somehow different then the Hamas government, so it is not an act fromt he nation, though I have yet to figure this out), attack a military base, and capture a soldier, and hold him hostage for hundreds of prisoners in an exchange.
Simply the war that Palestenians are waging has nothing to do with occupation. At some point you have to say enough is enough, Palestine is run by terrorists and they will not disarm them, and they will not govern them, so you have to hit back.