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In reply to the discussion: Massive misinformation campaign against Israel. [View all]Wingus Dingus
(8,060 posts)began against Hamas was and is the equivalent of crippling Israel. Many in the Muslim world--not all, certainly, but many--do not want Israel to retaliate. That is why Hamas exists, and uses its civilian-shield tactics, to begin with--allows the Arab world (and Iran) to yell with moral indignation at Israel even when it's been bloodied. What they want is for Israel to do nothing, and absorb the blow. You will not convince me otherwise. And to absorb that blow without an answer and a defense would be extremely demoralizing for a people who have had to endure one of the greatest mass human atrocities ever recorded.
I hate seeing the death on both sides, but I have no dog in this fight--I am just an ordinary Catholic European American with no axe to grind so I think I'm being pretty impartial here. Just suddenly calling for peace after such an egregious attack on their citizens is tantamount to poking them in the eye. I hope they do their best to avoid gratuitous bloodshed and destruction, but I would never stop someone who took a bad punch from swinging back.