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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Well, notifying them at least allows them to escape with their lives. It's not an "or else" message as I understand it. It's a "hey, we're going to bomb this building in 10 minutes; get your family out." Which it kind of counter to the strategy of suicide bombing or random rocket fire.
Perhaps I should have said, heavily populated area vs. civilian area. My point is still that the selection of where to fire from and where to store weapons seems to be to intentionally place them in areas that will be troubling to outsiders should they get hit, rather than say a warehouse on the outskirts of town. (Here's a strike on a Mosque: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwP_LusgPAw) Is that Israel's fault? Does that mean Israel should ignore the presence of weapons that threaten its security?
I didn't mean there was anything at all wrong about our discussion. I'm obviously enjoying participating in it. I just think that we all in the US tend to think we should know stuff and that our opinions matter as much to the rest of the world as they do in our country. Knowledge of what was really happening in Gaza could theoretically change our domestic policy towards Israel, but we can probably wait until after Obama takes office to really fret too much about making a change.
ETA: Even if you knew for sure that Israel was absolutely in the wrong, what would you do? Protest? Write a letter to your political representatives? I'm not trying to single anyone out; I'm not planning any pro-Israel actions myself. I just mean there's something a little bit silly about thinking that our opinions should matter to Israel, rather than to each other talking in this thread. |
That is why i'm saying we need more media in the area. All we hear (from Israel) is that Hamas is putting their weapons and people in civilian houses, UN schools, mosques, etc. but is that fact? Has it been proven that those places really did have weapons? If Israel claims there are weapons stored in a certain location, why can't they raid the location instead of bombing it?
I think notifying them is a good thing, it allows the innocent Gazans to escape, but for how long? No place in the Gaza strip is safe, so these people are just gonna keep running from place to place everytime they get a call from Israel. It's a game of cat & mouse, eventually the people aren't gonna have anyplace to run. What's gonna happen then?
800+ Palestians have died since Dec. 27 while only 13 Israelis have died (10 of those being soldiers). You can't tell me that most of those 800+ are actual Hamas militants.
I don't think that us, as Americans, should think our opinions matters more than anothers, but I think it is in our best interest to gain as much knowledge as we can (on both sides) so that we just don't blindly support one side or the other.