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Originally Posted by epchick
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.
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Sure, but I can also understand why Israel has some higher priorities right now.
Can you see that you're sort of talking about of both sides of your mouth? On the one hand Israel shouldn't "occupy" the territories; the other hand, they shouldn't use air strikes, they should raid every suspected storage area or combatant hide-out.
And yep, I think the arms storage thing is pretty proven. Did you see the You-tube and the double explosions?
Some of the lopsidedness of the causalities lies with Hamas's methods rather than with Israel's. I'm not sure what more Israel could do, especially as it appeared that Hamas's rockets were gaining both range and accuracy. Having one hit an nuclear plant in Israel was a completely unacceptable risk.
ETA: the reason it doesn't make much sense to me is that it demands a pretty big concession from Israel when there has been absolutely no reason to think it will actually result in increased Israeli security. To the contrary, it exposes Israel to much more risk. Also, it refers to entities that don't really exist as they did in the initial treaty.
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