You really believe the spiel that you learned by rote and that is sad.Lipush,
One killing a year ago, that I already took into account when I admitted there had been deaths from the rockets, does not take us to Hamas presently attacking
This has nothing to do with Hamas or agreeing with Hamas (the doctor's findings about stunted growth had nothing to do with Hamas, nor do UNICEF's findings about the condition of children in Gaza have anything to do with Hamas), Israel occupies Gaza, they have an obligation owed to the civilian population under the Fourth Geneva Convention, that prevents them from deliberately starving babies, that prevents them from deliberately causing Malnutrition in children and stunted growth in children. Israel still enforces a siege against Gaza, they destroyed their airport years ago, they shoot fishermen if they go beyond even a short way from their shores to fish, they prevent human aid groups from bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza by ship, they have attacked and destroyed infrastructure over and over, infrastructure, like water faciliries, like electric power plants.
I am not reading of children being killed by Hamas, am I missing a news report? I do not think so. I cannot ignore something that is not happening.
I know we have rockets launched into Israel by militants, that sometimes includes persons associated with Hamas. But mostly they fall into empty fields, and the threats posed are so small that I was recently reading of a growth surge in Sderot, Israelis are moving there in increasing numbers. In teh 10 years rockets have been launched, they have only killed about two dozen Isrealis, in taht same time period Isreal has killed thousands of Palestinian civilians in her terror attacks against civilians.
Terrorism is terrorism, it is bad whether it is carried out by militants or Israel.
But children should never be made to pay for acts of terrorism of anyone, Terrorism does not justify Israel in starving children in Gaza.
Sherri
You say no children have been killed by Hamas?
Should I give you an example?
Hamas school bus attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Or earlier?
Collective Punishment - the Qassam victims of Sderot
And ISRAEL IS NOT STARVING CHILDREN IN GAZA.
That's pure propaganda lies.
Lipush,
One attack and one killing by Hamas a year ago does not take us to Hamas presently targeting children. Israel targeted and killed 344 children in one military operation, alone, that was Cast Lead. And each child who was killed is named and we are told how old they were when Israeli Forces killed them, and we are told how they died, on Btselem.
You call the deaths from rockets terrorism, OK, fine, so were the deaths of those 344 children killed by the IDF in Cast Lead, each one a victim of Israeli terrorism.
If Hamas is so evil they must be destroyed, by that very same reasoning, the Israeli Apartheid Regime, which embraces State Terrorism, also must be destroyed.
I do want to clarify something, I do not believe that, what I wrote in that last paragraph, I do not desire the destruction of either party named, my point is simply that if terrorism justifies destruction, that very same reasoning tells us states that embrace terrorism must be destroyed, too.
And while I do not agree with that, anyone's destruction, I think we all should be able to step back and agree the killings of the civilians on both sides is wrong and there is nothing good or moral about any of these killings, and acts that cause children to suffer malnutrition and stunted growth are also wrong.
It would be so easy for Isreal to just end her unlawful Occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza and abide by international law.
The Occupation is why there is violence.
Sherri