Originally posted by: Cheeseplug
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: Cheeseplug
How can you blame Palestinians for shooting rockets at Israel? Gaza has been blockaded by Israel since the Israelis pulled out in 2005. The flow of food, water, electricity, and lots of other supplies has been controlled or limited by Israel. The Israeli's have acted like animals during this current war, shooting at marked UN vehicles and shelling schools full of civilians. It is easy to say that Israel can justify the atrocities because rockets have been hitting them sporadically, but you need to look at why the rockets are being shot in the first place.
And how can the US prop up Israel to the tune of $2.5 billion a year when the 20% Arab minority in the actual country of Israel that are treated as second class citizens compared to the Jewish majority? How can it be a functioning democracy when not all of the citizens are treated equally?
Qassam rocket attacks started in 2001, not 2005.
Israel have every right to blockade Gaza just like Syria has blocked trade with Israel since 1967. No nation is forced to trade with one another. In fact most Arab nations have a blockade against Israel. Where is the protests of this overt rasicm? Does Israeli have to right to fire rockets into Saudi or Syria at schools and Mosques now? Somehow I think you're answer would be quite hypocritical.
In Israel there are about 1.5 million Arabs. How many Jews live in Jordan? None! In Saudi Arabia? None! In the Gaza strip? None! Many killed and the rest forceably expelled. Meanwhile, in Israel, courts have enforced equal rights of Arabs to buy land and houses in Jewish areas. In Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, selling land or houses to a Jew is a CAPITAL CRIME!! So who exactly treat whom as second class citizens?
And please please spare me the pieties and the righteous indignation of those "poor Gazans? ...guys like you called it ?peace? as long as the Arabs were doing the killing and the Jews were doing the dying. Suddenly, as Israel answered back, you found your 'Cause.' And the name is antisemitism. As usual, at the first hint of Jewish self-defense, how quickly those like you and most of the world show their true colors.
The rockets started in 2001 because Gaza was occupied by Israel, it wasn't just waking up one day and saying "hey, lets shoot at Israel."
The difference between the blockade between Israel and Gaza and blockades with other countries in the region is that Israel had been the source of all food, water, electricity, medicine and everything else. Gaza was held at the mercy of Israel for years.
I don't know why you are bringing up other countries and their laws, I didn't say I supported any of them. The fact is there is a 20% arab minority that lives in Israel. Everything about Israel is Jewish from the flag on down. The Arabs have never gotten a chance to share power in Israel, and have hardly any representation in the civil services. They are second class citizens, and the US is funding that.
Don't try to make me look like a Jew hating pro-hamas person, I am not that. Hamas are assholes but so are the Israelis. I would be just as outraged in the Jews were being killed. The Israelis are and have been acting as animals. The IDF hasn't been going that far out of their way to avoid civilian casualties, they have dropped pamphlets and such but do you realize how many people are in Gaza and how small it actually is?
Why is it the United State's responsibility to prop up Israel? Why do we protect them but do nothing to help out in Congo, Central African Republic, Sudan or the other parts of Africa where genocide and war are the norm?
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