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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
Like I said earlier in this thread, this narrative that everything is fine and dandy for the Palestinians when they're not firing rockets is just not true. Their land, resources,and money is all targeted by Israel even during "peaceful" times.
P.S. I hope your daughter and grand kids stay safe.
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Thanks for that, they are safe right now as they are visiting us for a few weeks. Son in law is supposed to be coming in a week but he might get called up and have to cancel. Thankfully he's not regular army otherwise he would probably already have been called up. Some of his close friends, who we've met on our visits there, already have so these things hit close to home for us.
As for the rest of your post, I don't agree with every policy or everything Israel does, but I understand the desire to protect themselves in this particular situation. I do feel that the Palestinians are getting caught in the middle and are used as pawns, and acknowledge that they get royally screwed from both sides.
I also feel however that mostly Hamas is responsible by using the Palestinians as human shields. They know if they keep pushing that eventually Israel will respond. They count on that. They station the rocket launchers beside schools and hospitals. They themselves hide amongst the civilians.
The biggest difference to me between the Israelis and the group they are fighting is at least Israel cares about somebody, their own people. Same thing can't be said about Hamas.