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Originally Posted by Damien
I do not mean to defend Israel although it is obviously the tone of my posts in most cases, but everything they do, they do in response to a danger posed to them. If Wales and Scotland decided to start firing missiles into our cities how long do you think it would be before the public demanded the sort of reaction we see Israel dish out?
Well if they elect a group which provokes Israel into these attacks then we have a clear idea of the path they have chosen, we cannot help a people who refuse to take any measures themselves towards peace! I do not want to see people harmed in the way they are, and what is happening is a massive injustice and I do feel angry about it. However, I feel angry at all of them.
I am angry that Israel overacts when we should expect better from them, I am angry that other countries manipulate the Palestinian people for their own goals, and I am angry that groups like Hamas provoke the Israeli reaction for PR Gain.
Yes, I agree. I also like the point out that my points about the provocation of the attacks is still not justification for them. Israel should be ashamed and if the people of Israel had any sense they would reject their governments brutality.
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When you go through life under the conditions they go through, and there is a party promising a change and coming across as the only person in 'authority' that cares for you, well it becomes easy to vote for them doesnt it.
The way I look at it, Hamas don't do themsleves any favours sending missiles into Israel, and that has to stop if there is to be any progress in the region. Isreals reaction though, as we both agree, is totally over the top. Their response to anything that is a danger to them is and has always been totally over the top and with total disregard to innocent life and future peace.
By the way I remember growing up in London when the IRA were operating. Granted there weren't any suicide bombings, (not that I remember anyway) but there was the fear of getting on the tube, or going into Oxford Street. Remeber when someone got killed in Canary Wharf? We didnt bomb the hell out of them did we? I wonder why?