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Old Man Shadow's avatar

I trust neither Likud nor Hamas, but it's rather difficult to get around the pictures and stories of individuals as relayed by journalists and the UN.

Whether some people like it or not, Palestinians are human beings. They exist. And innocent men, women, and children are dying under the IDF's assault as surely as innocent Jewish people died under Hamas' assault.

Might be nice to wish for weapons that distinguish between combatants and non-combatants. Might be nice to wish that you could lock Hamas and the ultra-conservative Likudites into an arena without any innocent people. Hell, I wish Israel would spend the time and manpower to search out Hamas fighters and take them prisoner.

But reality doesn't conform to your wishes. Gazans have nowhere to go. No nation wants to accept over a million impoverished people with nothing to offer but themselves. So they are stuck in a small area of land currently being blasted by bombs and rockets and missiles and shells. And they are dying.

If you can't stomach little children being blown to pieces, maybe you should stop cheerleading war and stop voting to give the IDF more of our weapons to do it.

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Cookie Lady-back & pissed off's avatar

Are we surprised that a guy who conflates his work with a private defense contractor as “service” in the military would be less than truthful and trustworthy on other matters?

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