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Originally Posted by Osem
So if they're not being told to leave their homes do we assume their homes safe from attack? If they're not safe what other option do they have?
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Yes the Jews have been victimised for a very long tiime but the difference between then and now is that even those traditionally supportive of Israel's plight are turning against them. How much more evdience do Israel's leaders need before they see that what they're doing is morally wrong, isn't going to solve their problems and will only add to the hatred.
Yes many problems could be solved if there were no militants but in what way is the innocent population responsible for the actions of the minority of militants who are firing rockets? Perhaps we should bomb Parkistan into oblivion because of that country's links with militants and terrorists. What would such action achieve except generate even more hatred and more terrorists? The closest example we've had of a situation similar to that endured by Israel in recent years was the IRA conflict. Did the Govt. resort to the indiscriminate bombing and murder of republican areas and civilians to solve that seemingly insoluble problem? Should we have bombed Dublin? Despite the most grotesque provocation by the IRA and their ilk we didn't resort to that and didn't dialogue prevail in the end? |
Firing rockets into Israel is not going to win the Palestinians many friends either.
The campaign started by Israel is designed to stop Hamas firing rockets into Israel.It follows that it will continue until that happens.
In the IRA scenario, soldiers were placed in Ulster to keep the peace, which was not appreciated by either Catholics or Protestants, but at no time did the IRA fire rockets from Ireland or Ulster into England. Even with the soldiers in place there were incidents like "Bloody Sunday" where innocent people were caught up in gunfire between the British Army and the IRA.
I doubt if the Palestinians will like it if, in order to preserve the peace, the Israelis or even the UN place a peace-keeping force into Gaza to stop the violence or the smuggling in of weapons.
We know that there have been deaths on a massive scale. We know that there are many people around the world ( including you and me) who are uphappy about the carnage but what we and others think isn't going to change the fact that Hamas is firing its rockets and Israel is trying to stop them. Israel won't withdraw until the firing of rockets stops. Hamas can do that voluntarily or the Israelis can pound away until there is no-one left who is able and willing to fire rockets. But Hamas won't stop and so it all goes on.
Whichever way you look at it, violence is not the answer because history shows that after each war there are negotiations for peace.