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Originally Posted by valo403
My issue with all of this is the apparent ease with which actions by either side are condemed and those of the other praised based on misinformation. There's plenty of blame to go around in this entire conflict, not just this particualr incident. I understand that it's a heated topic, but when there's no interest in doing much more than blaming one side or the other what's the point? It's not limited to this board obviously, but it would be nice to actually see educated people take moderate stances as opposed to flying out to one extreme or the other. A bit of a pipe dream, but one can hope.
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Yes.
We here in Canada love to blame Israel for not being more humane with their actions, not only now, but in years past.
And then we forget about what its like sitting in an area where all your neighbors want to kill you, and where territory you GAVE UP is inhabited by people who use it to shoot rockets into Israel.
To make matters worse, people tend to ignore those rocket attacks, and condemn Israel for the blockade without realizing that Israel has no choice but to impose a blockade. They HAVE to protect their own citizens from more attacks, and inspecting the cargo coming in is the only way they can possibly do that.
International outcry against stuff like this is why Israel says 'screw you' to everyone.
Especially when a bunch of morons in the media start bitching about 'international waters'...when its a grey area at BEST, and other countries do the same thing Israel is doing with the blockade and boarding, ALL THE TIME.
And lets not even get started by the people who voted Hamas into power. These same people Israel should be nice too.