Did you even read the post?
Lots of countries have diplomatic relations with Arab states. :dunno: Calling all Arabs terrorists, like what you are saying, is rather offensive. There are many Arab states, like the U.A.E. that have nothing to do with terrorists. And not to mention that Israel has a sizable Arab population itself. There are some Arab states that support terrorism, yes, but not all of them do, and certainly not every person of Arab ethnicity.
Jews killing muslims and vice versa.. win/win?
try thinking about it this way: what would usa do if canada fired rockets indiscriminately into buffalo, new york? the answer: work with their government to get that to stop. but what if their govt refuses to help? then usa goes to punitive sanctions, turning the screws until canada complies. and then if nothing? that's why i understand why israel considered their overwhelming response, but i don't think it will be effective in the long run.
Did you even read the post?
Isreal controls the Gaza Strip and the Palestinians. They control almost everything that goes in. And this control forces the Palestinians into poverty (Isreali GDP per capita, $26,600. Palestinian, $1,100).
And now Isreal is preventing enough food in; according to the UN.
If your country was controlled by another country for a generation and now they were slowly starving you, what would you do?
And btw, apparently all the Palestinian rocket attacks that caused this massive Isreali bombing killed a total of 1 person. The Isreali retaliation killed over 200.
The Palestinians that rocket attack Isreal are very wrong to do it. But the Isreali bombing's are far worse.
About 200 times worse.
When Israel retaliates just like facetious pointed out the Palestinians USE CIVILIANS, WOMEN AND CHILDREN too shield themselves!! they put all the women and children in the line of fire just too make Israel look unjustified in their attacks!!!
How does that work? hey look here comes a rocket, quick, everybody line up in front!
It's pretty simple, if a rocket hits an area with a civilian population, it's because those people were already there. It's not as if they called up everyone and told them that a rocket would be hitting their house next Tuesday, it kind of defeats the whole purpose of using long range strikes.
military (Hamas, or other terrorist) forces may be placed among civilian areas for the express purpose of trying to deter bombings, but how does that falsely portray Israel's motivations? They knew that they were hitting innocent people to get to their targets, but they didn't care.
You're right about one thing Philbert, having your family blown up is a pretty good way to get you to take action. So who do you think is going to be the next lot to line up and attack Isreal?
every conflict in the middle east (most everywhere else too) is a result of people that feel they are being threatened and that it's Ok to resort to using violence in retaliation that may or may not be justified.
They have virtually no choice.IMO Hamas, hezbolah, (the terrorists) and their weapons cache's weapons warehouses, along with high profile members of these regimes purposely cover themselves by being and blending into civilian area's so no matter what israel does they are the one to blame cuz they have better more destructive weaponary and war technology?