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Originally Posted by Paul
No, there are not "two" theories.
For starters, you just mentioned three in your post. 
The IDF have not said anything that I can find other than they will investigate.
Perhps you missed that they are waging a war, and in wars, mistakes, sadly, get made.
Every mistake isnt a deliberate plot, if you have proof otherwise, feel free to inform us all (and the respective governments). |
As I said before, being very generous, one aid vehicle precision-bombed might be a mistake. But three aid vehicles targeted? Even if we uncritically accept Netanyahu's line of it being a mistake, I make that three mistakes and not one. And three mistakes in a demilitarised zone in which the aid workers let the IDF know of their route beforehand can't be explained away too easily.
Context is everything so let's look at some of that.
- Between the beginning of the war in October and March 20 at least 196 humanitarian workers had been killed in the occupied Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank.This is nearly three times the death toll recorded in any single conflict in a year, per Jamie McGoldrick, the UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator for the occupied territories.
- Our foreign secretary David Cameron requesting that Israel open its borders to allow aid in as the country was seen to be making it hard for aid to enter.
- The US, Israel's biggest ally, has snubbed Israel to build a pier to enable food deliveries to Gaza.
At best, the IDF places very little value on the lives of aid workers. At its worst, it's more deliberate. Neither's a good look and neither will contribute to long-term peace in the region.
If you're searching for conspiracy theorists, there's richer pickings on other threads on this Forum.