I'm sure there's tons of conflict between Palestinian and the Israel. I'm sure both sides done a lot of nasty stuff. I'm not saying Israel are saints and all they have done so far since the beginning of time is all moral ane ethical. I'm saying if you fire friggin rockets for friggin a whole year on my civilians, then my military action to disable your capability to do so is called 'defense'.
Also, I completely don't understand your logic in regards to that targeting civilian is just 'normal'. Yeah in war you can do whatever you want, but to claim to be 'right', not targetting civilian is the least you should do. I am talking 'targeting' here, not talking about collateral damage.
Now, in regards to Israel destroying plenty of civilian structures and piling plenty of civilian casualties... Did you even read the link I posted a couple posts ago on the article written by that Havard Law dude? The argument/speculation here is that the Hamas is using their own citizens as human shield (aka. launching attacks from hospitals, heavy residential areas, refugee camps). Also, attacking Israel civillian to provoked Israel to disable their military capabilities. They are basically just trying to rack up the death toll. How is that 'right' by any chance?
And if not for military action, what do you suppose Israel to do? Hamas have increased rocket attack to what? 6/7 dozens a day? ever since the 6 months truce ended late December. They denied renewal of the truce, even tho during the truce they still fired a dozen or so rockets a day over the Gaza border anyways. Furthermore these rockets are basically randomly scattered over area of land with plenty of civilians. This can't even be considered as conventional military action that attempts to reclaim disputed land. This is purely provoking Israel to whip their a$$, as civilian death is what they want.
I agree that full scale assault causing tons of civilian casualty is not the brightest move. But something must be done to remove the Hamas from power. Call me naive, I personally think assassination probably is a better way to get rid of the Hamas regime if one is to use force? But sitting there continually letting the enemy bomb your civilians is called irresponsible to your own people. |