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In reply to the discussion: Belgian physician refuses to treat Jewish patient over Gaza op [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)That principle may well be what is pushing Israel to make sure it wins at all cost. Meanwhile lives are lost.
We should all be pressing both sides to make peace not war.
The killing of innocent children is the natural result of war and terrorism. The inability to live in peace leads to war which leads to killing children (and usually their parents too).
So instead of encouraging one side or the other to get revenge or "justice" through violence, we should be encouraging both sides to negotiate and enforce a well negotiated peace.
Justice can only rarely be achieved through violence. Violence has not worked well for Palestine. Palestinians get lots of encouragement and sometimes a shipment of rockets or some other horrible tool of war and terrorism, but they don't get the right help to make peace for their people and to have attitudes that permit them to keep the peace.
Here is a list of Palestinian terror attacks between 1989 and 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_attacks
Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence
And international Palestinian terror attacks on Jewish targets:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/terror1952_1989.html
There is enough blame on both sides. Note the picture of a kindergarten classroom in Israel hit by a Palestinian rocket.
The fighting has been going on for over 60 years. Time to stop it.
Time to ask Israel to negotiate for peace with the Palestinians and to ask the Palestinians to then enforce the peace with criminal penalties against their own people who commit acts of terror. I don't know if that is possible, however, because Palestine is more a people than a traditional state.
There is enough blame on both sides. But the list of Palestinian terror attacks may seem unimportant to DUers who are watching a slaughter. But it is not unimportant to Israelis and the IDF who are fighting a war to end that terror. Two sides. Two sides.