Sitting in Wisconsin, or Delaware, or Oklahoma, it’s pretty easy to point fingers at the IDF and complain about their use of force and the innocent people they sometimes kill. But I’m guessing that most Americans would feel differently if terrorists who sought our utter destruction indiscriminately launched rockets into our cities and towns and killed our neighbors.
It’s cuz there isn’t one. I can’t think of any way to make the Palestinians take yes for an answer, and any deal they get now will be worse for them than what they could’ve had in 2000.
Arafat really screwed his own people. And continues to do so from beyond the grave. It’s absolutely unconscionable.
I believe there was a Russian who talked about the American experience with war.
The American people haven’t seen the true face of war since our own Civil War in the 1860s. The only Americans who have seen it since 1865 are the soldiers who fought on foreign territory.
We American civilians don’t have any idea what war is really like. We civilians certainly read about it and watch it on tv and have done so in large numbers since Vietnam. But we haven’t seen our own towns and cities become battlefields with two opposing forces fighting for control of positions since the 1860s. Over a century and a half ago.
When a fellow American criticizes the IDF’s techniques, I get highly offended. Because we don’t have a ■■■■■■■ clue what it’s like to live next door to people who despise us and want our land for themselves and have no problem executing our children. We don’t have any idea what that’s like.
You can continue to support killing innocent people in relentless pursuit of hamas. If that is your only solution, feel free to do it. The value of lives are apparently not equal between Palestinian vs Israeli.
The IDF’s obligation is to defend Israeli citizens, which includes Israeli Arabs, the Druze, the Bedouin as well as Jews. Not to the Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza.
Hamas is supposed to be obligated to the safety of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. But they don’t give a ■■■■ about them. They use them as human shields and sacrifice their children.