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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Israel, Hamas trade deadly fire as confrontation escalates
By FARES AKRAM and JOSEF FEDERMAN GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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mrtinjp
This is a common strategy for forces that are far outnumbered and out-equipped by the opposing force. That doesn’t make it morally correct, though.
There is no justification in hiding behind civilian population..none.. Israel as such has the moral high ground.
lucabrasi
@zichi
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I was being (attempting to be) very sarcastic... : )
Toasted Heretic
If a people has their land taken, and are left in appalling poverty and treated as subhuman by the land grabbers, do you really expect them to just accept the situation?
Jimizo
In any discussion or debate on any topic, you’d be hard pressed to come up with a more morally bankrupt line of reasoning than this.
There are moral people on the right who wince at this. There are Israelis who wince at this.
Everyone should wince at this.
bass4funk
The original homeland of the Israelites, but their land shares the historical connection to the other two.
Well, the Arabs won’t take anything away, won’t happen.
They can rise up, but the more violence they engage and partake in, the less chances of a two state solution will ever come to fruition. The ball is in their court.
Toasted Heretic
And maybe Israeli and US aggressors could start by recognizing that Palestine was the homeland for Muslim, Jewish and Christian Palestinians.
You know, instead of taking their land and trying to erase their culture and rights.
Hardly suprising the Palestinian people are rising.
Two state solution, now.
bass4funk
So far they have done a horrible job. They have done absolutely nothing positive for the people in Gaza.
Well, then maybe the Palestinians could start by recognizing and acknowledging Israel as the land of the Jewish people and take it from there, denounce all terrorist acts going forward and then maybe they can restart the talks and bring both sides together to figure out the two state solution, then and only then can that take place, but as long as the Palestinians our vent on attacking these release and using violence, then it will be equally met with violence, they Palestinians can’t win this. Again, the best advice would be to hold new elections in to find a suitable leader that will try to bring the two sides together and not use given aid to purchase weapons from the Iranians.
mrtinjp
Not counting the nine children killed by the IDF yesterday, Israel has killed 2,113 Palestinian children in the last twenty years.
These Hamas freedom fighters, militants or whatever are always hiding in the civilian population.. the MO is very simple, fire the rockets from the civilian population, and let the Israeli counter strike do the obvious and than blame Israel for the massive civilian deaths... and in this they have been very successful.
bass4funk
Israel should do whatever it takes to stop and uphold freedom and democracy in the region and this outrageous aggression towards the Israelis is unacceptable and as long as the Palestinians oppose any lasting peace process, there will never be any peace. Israel has the absolute right to use justifiable force in order to stop the Hamas/Iranian backed attacks on the Jewish nation.
RichardPearce
Someone thinks that the victims of the Israeli regime's brutal oppression 'get their rockets from Iran' despite the fact that the Israeli regime has all of Gaza under a total siege.
As if that wasn't ridiculous enough, that if they were firing Iranian rockets, that they would be hitting the Israeli regime forces in the area the refugees were cleansed from by the Israeli regime rather than the volunteer human shields the Israeli regime asked to move in to the depopulated area also seems to be a reality he ignores.
bakakuma
The US created this problem like many others around the world.
Realization
By the way, where is UN?
are they drafting a press release for Peace???
Shame Shame and Shame on shameless UN activity.
Unless peaceful two state, how UN expect Peace???
Realization
@zichi
yes you are correct.
The Arab countries are looking for handshake money & business relation from Israel.
No. of deaths will bring no. of bonus for those Arab countries.
venze
The world does not like to witness the on-going fiery conflict in Israel and Gaza that could explode to a bigger war between Israel and its neighboring Arab countries.
No nation in its right mind could afford to ignite any war without suffering undesirable consequences itself..
theFu
Where does Hamas get their rockets? Iran.
Israel is showing massive restraint.
I don't wish for Palestinians to be harmed, but I do wish they'd come to the peace table to negotiate with words, not violence.
I with Israel didn't take any more land and encouraged a peaceful 2-state solution with Palestinian neighbors. It isn't like those people will be leaving. 1,000 years from now, there will be Israelis and Palestinians living next to each other. How they both behave today matters.
German-born Jews who escaped to America have aided the world in huge ways. In WW2, they were deployed as native German speakers up on the slang and culture to get German soldiers to provide intelligence in the fight against Hitler. I'm grateful for them and their efforts. A few were shot by American soldiers on camp patrol even when they said the correct password due to their thick German accents.
For why Israel wants a buffer from their neighbors, just look up the 6-day war. Netanyahu lived that and all Jews have a "never again" attitude after having 6M+ of their culture/religion wiped out. Never again.
Israel is showing massive restraint.
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
And yet the US government (especially the State Dept.) is full of Israeli-America "dual-citizens" and attempts to posture as an honest and independent peace broker in the region.
M3M3M3
It's extremely naive to imagine that they would have been satisfied with any other piece of land. The ultimate aim of Zionism has always been to evict the Palestinians, demolish the Al-Aqsa mosque, and rebuild a third temple. That's why the borders keep expanding towards Jerusalem year after year. They've been working towards this goal long before Hitler was ever on the scene.
Cogito Ergo Sum
@Mark
Aren't we all tired of hearing this World's super power beating the hell out of a defenceless people while screaming at the top of their lungs about " self defence ". ?
Palestine has been an ongoing land grab and Jerusalem is the icing on the cake. All this executed under the watch of the US.
SuperLib
This violence benefits no one.
Desert Tortoise
As a land owner I get sick and tired of seeing Palestinians being forced off their land and their homes, often family land passed down for generations, taken from them so adherents of the state approved religion can build their homes on their land. . If a government took my home by force to give to someone else because I was the wrong religion I would certainly take up arms and fight or at the very least aid those who were fighting. But if it involves an Arab in Palestine they are labeled "terrorists" and condemned while those stealing the land are cheered as somehow heros. Pardon me if I hate seeing my tax dollars going to the nation stealing the land and abusing the rightful owners of that
Desert Tortoise
Saying that in the US today can almost get you prosecuted for "hate speech". It's enough to get you booted from some major universities (students or faculty both) or get you fired from all kinds of jobs.
Alex
You really think it's possible, given the US support of Israel?
RichardPearce
When the ICC rules on the events, will it be enough to get AP to drop the big lie about 'Palestinian aggression/Israeli response' or will it go the OANN route and continue the big lie even after all reasonable doubt that it is a lie has vanished?
The Avenger
Not counting the nine children killed by the IDF yesterday, Israel has killed 2,113 Palestinian children in the last twenty years.
By contrast, the Palestinians have killed 137 Israeli children in the same period.
(Source: https://statistics.btselem.org/en/all-fatalities/by-date-of-incident?section=minors&tab=overview)
All child killers are monsters, but some child killers are bigger monsters than others.
Aly Rustom
Agree 100%! Well said Mark!
Mark
It is the Palestinians LEGAL RIGHT to defend themselves, as Israel continues to Occupy their land and STEAL their homes and properties.