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Originally Posted by jammies
In any conflict where the asymmetry of military force denies one side even the faintest hope of victory, the natural outcome is guerrilla warfare or "terrorism" where the weaker side resorts to the only possible means of resistance - covert operations, and operations against civilian targets. It is the same Israeli nation that fulminates against "terrorists" now whose founders were practitioners of terrorism themselves for this very reason when faced with the military supremacy of the British; you would think that this ultimately successful campaign would have taught their leaders that for every terrorist you kill by bombing his base into rubble, you create two more in the ruins.
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Leftist 2: The Palestinians have no recourse but to defend themselves, and the makeshift rockets they fire are nothing compared to the world's most advanced warplanes and munitions, which the IDF is using against them.
The Human Rights Watch organization has been
unequivocal in condemning the use of Qassam rockets as a direct violation of international humanitarian law and the laws of war. The firing of Qassams and mortars against civilian populations also
constitutes collective punishment
against hundreds of thousands of innocent Israeli men, women and children.
Moreover, the firing of Qassams began not as a response to the siege against Gaza, but as a marathon celebration by armed Islamic fundamentalist groups following Israel's withdrawal of its troops and settlers from the Strip. To purposely add insult to injury, Islamic Jihad and other organizations used the ruins of settlements as launch platforms.