VAVAVOOM 14 wrote:^ I don't know what a "Safe zone" is in war, you're the one who said you tell civilians where to go in order to avoid missiles, in other words, a safe zone.
Also, you saying casualties will "inevitably" happen in war and saying the civilians had "ample" time to leave still doesn't explain why four innocent boys playing football on a beach were decimated?
They were intentionally blow up, that's fu*king heinous.
Killing babies and children is the most immoral thing possible.
The Gazan civilians were told where to go to avoid shelling.
The Israeli military has intentionally attacked certain areas of Gaza, and left others clear so that civilians can flee there.
Not nice for a civilian, but at this time of year the night temperature in Gaza are 24 degrees C through the night, so it is possible to sleep outside.
But a "Safe Zone?" as you describe it.
Cannot exist.
Because the UN designates a school or hospital as theirs, if the Hamas launch RPGs out of it then Israeli will fire back.
You cannot have the UN claiming a "Safe Zone" then allowing Hamas to use it as a military base, it immediately renders their concept of a "Safe Zone" irrelevant if Israel returns fire, which on ever occasion a hospital or school has been hit has been why they have been hit.
The kids on the beach were not intentionally blown up.
Saying that is heinous.
The military returned fire to the area they were in.
As I said, so many air force missions have been abandoned when a target is in the cross hairs, simply because the pilot realised civilians would be hurt.
Children die in war, it is horrible but that is war.
It is them or us.
If we do not destroy their tunnels, they will use them to come into Israel and kidnap our children.
That is what they were plotting for this September.
It is why there has been less trouble in Gaza in the last few months, because they wanted quiet to get on with their evil plan.
Spud
Whether I am better informed than others I cannot say for sure.
But as an Israel citizen I have a vested interest.
I too think that Israel's actions are disproportionate.
But I think Israel needs to go in harder, crush Hamas, prepare for an authority in Gaza that lets it's people live a productive life.
The only line I would draw is to keep it at conventional weapons.
"Western" Opinion matters not to me except in that it could become a threat to my safety.
These marches are mainly Muslims who hate my guts for simply being alive, whether there would be a state of Israel or not.
Hamas in their charter want to destroy Israel and all Jews worldwide.
The marchers do little if anything when Jihadists kills hundred in the Central African Republic, or Syria, or Iraq.
Where are the marches, when hundreds of thousands of their own religionists are slaughtered?
Those who understand the nature of warfare against a terror group in (mainly urban areas will know there is no easy way to defeat it.
Israel has to destroy the tunnels and then prevent more being built, that is what this is about.
Brady
Those who chanted were wrong.
Their actions were not in accordance with my faith.
Others at the demo tried to shut them up.
But what of the Arab men women, and children who baked Eid Al Fitr cakes in the shape of Grad rockets and AK-47's?
Who dance and sing when a Hamas rocket lands in Israel?