Quote (Caedus @ Oct 20 2014 12:06pm)
No it's not. Those civilians shouldn't support Hamas by letting them use them as shields. Those children's deaths are placed squarely at the feet of the people who caused their deaths. Palestinians.
But of course you won't argue because you're a Hamas sympathizer who hates Jews.
Again, trying desperately with the personal attacks to add validity to your point...which isn't going to sway anyone.
Israel uses overwhelming military force against Palestinian civilian areas, knowing it will kill civilians
"surely Israel is responsible for the bombs it drops in areas it knows to be civilian, especially given its overwhelming military superiority in the conflict. On the other, Israel and its defenders argue that Hamas forces it launch these overwhelming campaigns in civilian areas"
Hamas irresponsibility and terrorists actions does not absolve Israel of its guilt by using overwhelming force in civilian districts
"Second, the pro Israeli argument presents a false binary choice between passively accepting Hamas's rocket attacks versus bombing Gaza civilian neighborhoods into the stone age. Given Israel's overwhelming military superiority and its vastly lower exposure to fatalities (more than 100 Palestinian civilians have been killed for every one Israeli civilian), surely it could afford to be less enthusiastic in its utter destruction of civilian-heavy areas.
It may well be the case that sometimes Israel is forced into an impossible choice between ignoring rocket attacks and bombing a civilian structure, in which it is at least defensible for Israel to privilege its self-defense and bomb the building. But in a larger view it is very difficult to imagine that a Palestinian threat that has killed seven Israeli civilians is dire enough to justify attacks that have killed 815 Palestinian civilians."