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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
One side has killed civilians as their main goal in this conflict for generations. Their government's main goal is the eradication of an entire nation.
Israel is guilty of killing civilians within a sphere of war where their opposition refuses to protect their own citizens. However to equate that to terrorism is simply immoral.
Walking onto a bus or pizza parlor full of innocent people in a time of peace (meaning NON-WAR/TRUCE/NEGOTATION) period and killing them indiscriminately will never be the same as civilian deaths during a war period.
I believe the attempt to equate Hamas, a known and globally identified Terrorist entity whose stated goal is destruction of an entire nation/race, to a modern liberal democracy engaged in warfare, is rather disgusting. Does this excuse the atrocities being committed? Of course not. But the entire cycle definitely is brought about by the actions of these terrorists. Those that excuse terrorism as justified in the name of land disputes merely perpetuate the further cycle of violence.
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Agreed. Keep in mind too the Palestinian leadership had on the table an offer, made by Israel, to create a Palestinian state just a few years ago but the Palestinian leadership instead rejected the offer and responded by launching a new terror campaign w/ rocket/mortar attacks and kidnapping through tunnels.
Israel finally agrees to an unconditional cease fire for three days and it gets violated in two hours with the kidnapping of a high profile IDF officer w/ 2 soldiers dead. How can there be peace with this type of duplicity? How can you make peace with an a side that only takes that period of peace to re-arm, rebuild it's weapons and build future fighting networks instead of working to improve the lives of it's people? Israel may be extremely heavy handed in it's response, but at least they at least try to make overtures of peace.