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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Chill I get what your saying, but you need to add one other factor to your calculations. The Hamas terror arm shields themselves among the civilians. They fire rockets from schools and hospitals and other densely populated areas. Hamas is a death cult, they see the death of their own citizens as a positive propaganda weapon so they encourage it.
I agree Israel needs to find another way, when they attempted to target senior leadership through the use of their special forces and selected targeting they got a whole lot of negativity from it.
Right now Israel from a defense standpoint can't really back off because Hamas has always used these periods to re-arm and improve their rockets.
As a side note, you can talk about the lower Israeli casualties and rightfully so, but its not from a lack of trying by the extremist groups, I mean at one point a few days ago I read that they fired over 80 rockets into Israel in an hour, its more fortune, and Israel's citizens being well drilled in terms of getting to shelters then its Hamas not trying to kill people enmasse.
Both sides are at fault absolutely, but the biggest issue right now in any peace plan has to be the security of Israel and the only way that happens is if terror groups like Hamas are taken out of the picture.
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100% agree.
I don't want any confusion over me defending Hamas or anything like that, or that they aren't TRYING to kill civilians, simply that Israel is really doing so much damage that it's hard to view them in a positive way.
A solution needs to occur, but Israel needs to figure out a way to do that without massacring anymore innocents. They have both the power to kill and the power to protect. Hamas is, while belligerent, comparatively weak and unable (or uninterested) in protecting Palestinians, so Israel needs to work on doing that themselves while executing better attacks.