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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
You know perfectly well the kidnapping was not the start...I have made multiple posts detailing the 100s of rockets fired prior to the kidnapping. And what did Israel do? They documented every detail and watched as the world was silent.
Did the kidnapping play a part? You bet, but after how many rockets did Hamas (the 'elected' government) fire at civilians?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...n_Israel,_2014
What should Israel have done when the rockets were being fired in the hundreds?
Gaza was a pretty good place for Palestinians to demonstrate some good will and prove to Israel (and the world) how well they could do without Israel running things. Instead Hamas started launching rockets, what a terrible mistake. |
Look at how many rockets were fired from May to the beginning of the conflict, after the unity government was formed. A handful. This while Israel was building settlements, withholding money,etc. The problem, other than your complete one-sidedness, is that the optics of rockets being fired is worse than the optics of building on other's land and withholding money, even though the latter causes far more hardship.