Monday, December 29, 2008

Gaza war

Three years ago, Israeli forces and Jewish settlers withdrew from the Gaza Strip, leaving Palestinian authorities in control. Within hours, minutes really, every synagogue in sight was burned down.

A very bad start.

Last year the terror group Hamas seized control of Gaza from the (comparatively) moderate Fatah group. Hamas began firing missiles into Israel, killing civilians

Did you expect Israel to do nothing?

Today is the third day of Israeli air assaults on terror sites in Gaza. So far 320 Palestinians are dead, 51 of them civilians. The death of noncombatants is a tragic, but not an unexpected result. Civilized nations at war for the most part go out of their way to avoid the deaths of civilians, but terror organizations place that principle on its head by targeting civilians in their attacks. Worse, being cognizant of the standards of decency that nations such as Israel possess, groups like Hamas place their offices and training facilities within residential and commercial areas in the hopes their strategic locations will ward off an attack.

Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak says the Jewish state is in a "war to the bitter end."

War is a terrible thing, but I'm with Israel on this one, and I hope they smash the snots out of the terrorists.

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5 comments:

  1. Jim Roper11:16 AM

    I'm with Isreal on this one too. I
    can't help but wonder if any
    western countries would come to
    the aid of Isreal?

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  2. Levois2:18 PM

    War to the end is kinda scary. Especially if the terrorist are in this to the bitter end as well.

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  3. Rumer10:36 PM

    ISRAEL IS A OCCUPIER. ISRAEL IS A APARTHEID STATE. ISRAEL IS A GANGSTER NATION. FAMILIES WHO LIVED IN PALESTINE ARE DRIVEN FROM THEIR LAND AND HOUSE IN THE SAME STYLE AS ANY JEW IN EUROPEAN HISTORY. iSRAEL IS STOLEN LAND.

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  4. Rumer10:39 PM

    IF THE FATAH, HAMAS ARE TERRORISTS, ALSO NORWEGIAN NAZI RESISTEN ARE, THOSE HO FOUGHT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
    ANY KNOWN FREEDOMFIGHTER

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  5. Rumer10:48 PM

    THE Occuping terror organissation israel are attacking Gaza because they fear that the next us president are likely to be more pro Palestinian. They have 20 days to make hell. They know that the opression of the Palestines are totally against the philosophy of BARAC Obama.

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