As someone who has actually seen and visited and lived in both sides, let me just chime in...
The Palestinians have chosen their fate the day they elected terrorists - Hamas - to represent them. Even the Palestinian Authority is not peaceful; they refuse to acknowledge Israel's right to exist, no matter where the borders are.
We had no choice but build a wall around the West Bank. Only then did the suicide bombings cease.
While Hamas like to present themselves to the world as oppressed freedom fighters, when you hear them on their own TV stations, they speak a different language. It's truly all about the spread of radical Islam and murdering as many Jews as possible, Israel or no Israel - and they like to say that America etc. will follow [being eradicated].
They - and the civilians, the oh so innocent - make huge parades, thousands strong, when two of them sneak into a Jewish home and slit the throats of sleeping children and their parents. Because while Israel accidentally hits civilians which is called collateral damage and is unavoidable in a war, the Palestinian terrorists deliberately target civilians, the more innocent the better. A baby's throat was slit and leftists want to tell me this is for freedom...
Whatever innocent/decent civilians that leaves.... One can safely assume that those representing the Palestinian cause on location, have an agenda that goes farther than rights and freedom - much farther. I'll gladly provide video material where these people speak their own mind. One of the mass murderers released in exchange for Gilad Shalit, proudly said she'd do it again - murder a dozen children, that is. That is the average crime and mentality of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons. And people from the West come here and tell US that WE are the villain. Can one really blame us for restricting them?
Israel may often hit civilians, however this is never on purpose when one omits the tiny number of renegade law-breaking soldiers. Israeli soldiers have the duty of rejecting immoral or unlawful orders; they go to great lengths to spare civilians.
However Hamas does not. They will make base where many civilians will be dragged into things, so they can later scream about that Israel killed them. What choice does Israel have? Leave Hamas - murderers - alone? Also Hamas loves to prep buildings with explosives they detonate when Israel attacks, making it look like Israel did it.
Israel has tried very hard, but whatever we offer them, the answer is "DEATH TO ISRAEL!" wrapped in some euphemism if one is lucky. I am long done pitying the Palestinians.
Lastly, they are not entitled to the territories. Every country is entitled to keep land conquered in a war, it's how the USA happened, it's how part of Belgium happened, and no one ever complained, so what's wrong with Israel doing the same thing? We won the West Bank during the Six-Day-War during which WE were gratitiously, cowardly and unfairly attacked, severely outnumbered. We conquered that strip of land, Jordan let us have it. So? Here's a public secret: The one who has an obligation to take in the Palestinians, is not Israel. They are not even Palestinians - they are mostly Jordanians! JORDAN has to take and accommodate them, not us! It's Jordan's people! We have no obligations to the "Palestinians" whatsoever, yet on a daily basis WE, not Jordan, send them hundreds of thousands of tons of humanitarian aid they have no real claim on. And as gratitude, we get bombed. Also on a near-daily basis. Why gee, thanks!
They are not victims of Israel. They are victims of anti-Israeli Islamic nations who use them as proxy fighters. They are victims of their own authorities and a culture that does not take progress into the equasion; I have seen them do their best to let whatever they have go to the dogs so they can keep mooching off the United Nations as "fugitives".
Israel may respond harshly to attacks, but it's still a RE-sponse. Honestly, if someone kicks me in the shin, I won't bother being proportionate about kicking back. I'll make sure I'll discourage them from kicking me ever again. What's wrong with that?
February 21st, 2012 at 07:26pm