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Originally Posted by blankall
1. Israel has never tried anything like this. In the past, it's always been Israel taking out a few rocket sites and then being pulled back by international pressure. Similarly an attack on Israel, by Hamas, like this has never happened before. This is new territory.
2. Secondly, the nature of the attack and the fact it was caused by Israel loosening the blockade, to allow far more Gazan workers into Israel, signals that the current status quo cannot continue. Hamas will never allow a peace agreement. What point is there continuing with Hamas in power. The two options are take out Hamas or continue with even greater restrictions to land Hamas controls.
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That's one way to look at it. The other is Hamas didn't like to see an improvement in relations between the people living in Gaza and the Israelis, so they sabotaged it.
Hardline religious people - be they Muslim, Jewish or Christians - do not care about the lives of people not in their religion or those who they perceive as enemies of their faith. Regular religious people often - and unintentionally, I believe - support the hardliners by aligning against whatever group their hardliners are currently hating. It bolsters the hardliners resolve.
So we have Israel - and Jews around the world - largely supporting this psycho Israeli response to the terrorist attack. You get hardline Christians supporting the Israeli response because they - also psychotically - need Armageddon in Israel so their sky daddy will come down and, I guess, kill us all except the special ones? Awesome. I, for one, love that our world is destabilized and getting worse because a bunch of indoctrinated fools want prophecies in a dumb evil book from a couple thousand years ago to come true.
I'm so annoyed at Israel's response. Hamas are terrorists and did terrorist things. Terrorism is pretty neat in that it works so well. Who among us didn't expect Israel to fly off the handle and go totally ballistic after this? When I woke up to the news a couple weeks ago about what Hamas did I was equal parts horrified by their actions and pre-emptively horrified in anticipation of predictable Israel's predictable response.
They really could have turned that terrorist attack into a strategic advantage. Goodwill and hearts and minds are what you need. You don't get that with bombs. Hardliners will never learn, apparently. Jokers.