Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Palestinians win upgraded UN status by wide margin [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)You can argue until you're blue that Hamas has good reason to send rockets, but they're very clear about their intentions and I happen to believe them. Their goal is to eventually destroy Israel, even if it takes another 50-100 years. They want as many Jews killed as possible. They've said so many times.
You're giving them excuses they don't even use.
To them, Tel-Aviv is also a settlement and it's illegal to build there too as Jews have NO rights to any of the land there.
Lastly, Hamas' rocket attacks and Israel's response are in no way morally equivalent. Hamas' rockets are very deliberate war crimes. Murder in the 1st degree. OTOH, Israel's response is absolutely legal according to all Laws of War (Geneva, etc.) and it's Geneva, for example, that assigns all blame to Hamas for innocent Palestinian civilians who are killed.
Your inversion of reality is complete perversion. The very fact that people like yourself are silent when Hamas is sending thousands of rockets over the border goes to show only one people in this conflict has human rights in your opinion. And it's not Israelis. In no way do you equally condemn both sides or show equal sympathy for both. Your utter contempt for one side (Israelis) is perfectly clear. That you assign no blame to Hamas for what they do to the population of Gaza (far worse than anything imaginable committed by Israel) goes to show you loathe Palestinians too, but that's for another time.