As Gaza death toll rises, Israeli tactics face scrutiny

Dear Gazians, If you think rolling burning tires, slinging rocks, filling plastic bottles with lit petrol, are a means to peace, then you got it wrong. Please try picking up a broom and sweeping your streets. Please try to read a book with your child. Please try to stop drawing cartoons of your neighbors and making them look evil. Please try to study and become people of the book like the people you are trying to annihilate. Studying is the answer. Pull out a book.

A child could have seen this coming. Just a dumb move by Trump.

they been mowing down people protesting and throwing rocks for quite some time now and you expect me to believe that suddenly there’s concern that Israel is playing too rough!?:-/

HarukaToday  06:38 am JST

Dear Gazians, If you think rolling burning tires, slinging rocks, filling plastic bottles with lit petrol, are a means to peace, then you got it wrong. 

Dear commentators,

If you think the acceptable response to burning tires, slinging rocks, filling plastic bottles with lit petrol is indiscriminate murder, then you got it wrong. Damage to property

If you think the acceptable response to burning tires, slinging rocks, filling plastic bottles with lit petrol is indiscriminate murder, then you got it wrong. Damage to property

exactly. We condemn Assad and Duterte as thugs who kill innocent civilians and they do. If we do not put Netanyahu in the same circle as these 2 murderers than we would be nothing short of hypocritical.

Netanyahu and his Defense minister Avigdor Lieberman are war criminals and must be treated as such. They should be banned from travelling to Europe and the rest of the west (but the US will surely welcome them)

This would not be unprecented. Ariel Sharon and Tzipi Livni both had travel bans imposed on them a decade or so ago for violations of human rights against the palestinians.

Killing people for protesting sets an EXTREMELY dangerous precedent we cannot ignore-regardless of which side of the fence you sit on.

Plain and simple, this is state terrorism: the deliberate murder of civilian protesters designed to inspire fear in the general population.

There is no justification for using live fire on demonstrators, either under international law or Israeli law, unless the demonstrators pose an imminent lethal threat. If the Iranian government had killed 60 protesters in a single day, including women and children, the Trump administration would be calling for regime change.

In the past, American presidents have exercised a moderating influence on Israeli behavior because the Israelis feared if they went too far either America would withdraw its support at the UN or cut off military aid. But with Trump in power, the Israelis think they have a license to kill with impunity, and clearly, they intend to use it.

Sorry kids, but a weapon is a weapon whether it is a fire bomb bottle, a large rock hurled at speeds greater than Ohtani can pitch a fast ball, or a heavy burning truck tire tearing down a steep hill, I would defend myself too. Do you think they just want to give you a little burn, or a love tap on the head with a hurled rock? If you do, then you have to start to think more deeply.

TV news here in Japan showed a clip last night of an Israeli sniper laughing as he shoots the legs of a male figure standing some distance away.

Observers can see things from all sides in this conflict.

It will take someone really big of heart and mind to sort out this problem.

Well, they face scrutiny the world ever, except in terrorist Israel and with Trump supporters.

Haruka, Bungle,

I agree!

The loudspeakers on the front line were encouraging those anarchists to breech the border. Telling them the Israelis were fleeing from the border.

They’re supposed to be protesting peacefully, remember? And the burning of the tires. Why burn anything at all?

“I ask my colleagues here in the Security Council, who among us would accept this type of activity on your border? No one would. No country in this chamber would act with more restraint than Israel has. In fact, the records of several countries here today suggest they would be much less restrained.”

-Nikki Haley.