Raise the Hammer

Mr Monsieur, like I said I believe the IDF went to far. However they are still not a terrorist organization. They overreacted to a terrorist attack if you cannot see the difference then you have a problem. Do you have any sense of history? The Arabs and Palestinians rejected the UN plan in 1949 and have been trying to annihilate the jews since. The surrounding nations have repeatedly attacked Israel and continue to do so. Israel has always bested the Arabs and lately the attacks are rockets randomly fired across the border or suicide bombers. The IDF has always retaliated quickly and violently. However the IDF to the best of my knowledge never sent suicide bombers to a Palestinian cafe. Mostly they are actually aiming for a military target but they don't care about collateral damage as much as we would like partly because the Palestinian terrorists will hide in apartment buildings with many innocents around them. Maybe a couple more 9/11 type attacks and we won't care as much either. The main goal of Israel is not to obliterate any other state or peoples but Hamas exists for that reason. I feel really bad for all the innocents on both sides. Just because some of the casualties are children sadly does not make them innocent. The Palestinians have used children as suicide bombers and have many times given them guns. Isn't that disgusting!

A thousand words, Thank you for the link. The irony is almost over powering, somebody spent a lot of time matching up pictures. Unfortunately I have seen pictures much worse from WWII and not surprisingly those were not shown.

Grassroots are the way forward, I guess I am mostly set in my ways. That does not mean I cannot look at things honestly, it means I tend to take things in context something I believe you are not doing. Over the years I have learned that people rarely change. I am not Jewish but I have to admire them for their resilience if nothing else. I have read a few things about their history (my main area of interest is WWII). They have been a persecuted people for hundreds of years all over the world (Canada and the USA specifically banned them from immigrating until the late 1940's) yet they are stronger now then ever. In my mind I will give them the benefit of the doubt many times, however like I said before in this case I believe they went too far.

I get the sense from you that you believe Israel and the IDF to be the real villains in this whole scenario am I correct?