Originally posted by: Craig234
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Originally posted by: Craig234
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Originally posted by: cliftonite
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
How many terrorist apologist threads is this now?
Right, bemoaning the deaths of civilians makes people terror apologists.
Right, that was the point of this thread... :roll: Don't be naive.
As you bankrupt yourself morally to choose empire over decency, the little niggling realities how wrong you are have to be beaten down one by one, to fixyour cognitive dissonance. And so you rationalize each bit of reality. Collateral Damage! The fault of the enemy who hid among civilians! The liberal media trying to manipulate you!
It's not easy to look at children who are casualties and dehumanize them, but it's a dirty job and someone has to do it, and that someone is you. They're trying to trick you!
lol, the only morally bankrupt folks around here are the ones that don't seem to recognize that hamas is a terrorist organization that uses innocent people as "shields" and then plays the propaganda BS when attempts are made to take out the terrorists. It's quite simple as I just told your terrorist sympathizing brother - have them stop firing rockets and blowing themselves up to kill people and Israel will stop trying to kill them.
Not bothering to repeat myself, since you can't understand the points.
But on the cause of the the rockets, the recent history as I understand it is:
Last June, a 6 month truce was reached. The terms were for Hamas to stop the rocket attacks, and Israel to relax the embargo.
What reportedly happened is that Hamas stopped the rocket attacks, and Isralel did not keep their end of the deal. As time went on, Hamas continued to honor the truce, while Israel never did honor their agreement. As the deadline approached, and Israel said they wanted an extension, Hamas said that they were willing to renew the truce if the embargo ended. When Israel did not agree to that, Hamas said the truce would not be renewed.
After the truce was announced to be over, Hamas, apparently to pressure Israel to agree to the terms, launched many rockets; Israel responded with the invasion.
So, if my understanding is correct, the blame can be put on Israel's failing to honor the agreement on the embargo while Hamas gets credit for honoring the truce during the 6 month period, while Hamas is the nation who chose to renew rocket launches because of the embargo.
You can ask why Hamas thinks they're entitled to launch rockets over an embargo, and you can ask why Israel did not end the embargo.
That seems the basic situation - Israel pointing at the rocket attacks as grounds for war, and Hamas pointing to the ongoing oppression like the embargo as grounds for attacks.