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swampy wrote: |
Israel can win. They can take the moral high ground and not respond to attacks. |
Do you (or anyone else suggesting Israel shouldn't respond) really believe that any country in the world could often have over 100 rockets landing in their country and not do anything?
Similarly, do you really believe that a government that did nothing could stay in power and not very quickly receive a vote of no confidence.
I suspect a good number of the munitions are basically glorified fireworks, but the 'M-302 rocket' has also been discussed - it has a range of around 100 miles, isn't too accurate (considerably less so than Israel's weapons, not that Hamas seems too bothered by such things) and can carry a 175kg war head apparently.
I was watching a BBC program on explosives, which reminds how much damage a small amount of explosive can do.
Here's 2kg of C4 blowing a bus up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nc98hzR-tk - we're talking 87 times that.
While Iron Dome is being touted as amazing and so on, the success rate is apparently 90%. So for every 100 they try and stop, 10 will get through.
Quote: | Are you saying that Israel are justified in their actions, even if you believe your statement about Hamas to be true? |
As above, I cannot see any other course of action that would work in the real world.
What do you think, that could be done in the real world, their government should do?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Charter
Seems it may be of less relevance now.
In the end, I don't think anyone can deny that if you stood the BNP next to Hamas, they might as well be 'bronies' for general nastiness. |
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Doovy wrote: | We're just giving them what they want. They'll only be coming over with suicide vests on in a few years anyway | So with that in mind - why do you think what Israel is doing currently is firstly a good idea and secondly has the 'protection of the Israeli people' at the front of why its happening.
If anything is going to help create waves of potential suicide bombers and other militants - its attacking schools full of women and children. Wiping out thousands of innocent members of civilians families is a golden ticket to creating the exact sort of people Hamas and other organisations want as militants for suicide attacks.
There are other ways to go about finding and removing rocket caches with the assistance of ground forces being a key one, besides having to blanket-bomb large areas and 'precision strike' heavily populated buildings because there may or may not be some rockets nearby.
Quote: | The thing is, Israelis can deal with a two-state solution if it means peace, it's the Arabs who can't. Peace is not their goal. |
Quote: | Well when the terms 'Israeli', 'Zionists' and 'Jews' are all used interchangeably as they currently are, then why the fuck not eh. | So you think anti-Israeli arguements are generally able to be ticked off as being anti-zionist/anti-semitism... Yet yourself are happy to refer to 'these people' and 'arabs' seemingly accusing the entire Palestinian/Arab population of not wanting peace. Oh and to back it up, and show that even the kids don't want peace - you quote a single video of a few children well that seems fair and not at all judgemental of an entire people I have no doubt many if not most Israeli civilians don't want to destroy Palestine or its people, just as I have no doubt most Palestinians don't want Israel to be wiped out - the governments on both sides however have different aims and agenda's it seems. Just because some people on one side play dirty at times doesn't remove the responsibility to act in a way that doesn't stoop to that level.
Quote: | Because they're radical muslims, and the reason why Britain / USA is not getting involved as it fucking well should because they know the same will happen here / there again - as it has in the past.
It's gonna happen here with the Jihadists. Seriously.
When was the last time you heard Jews blowing up buses in London or taking down whole train lines? | You really think Britain and the USA isn't getting involved out of fear of aggrivating some radical Muslims? I would say thats become one of our strong points after Iraq and Afghanistan and is probably one of the last things our governments care to consider when entering conflicts. Getting involved with anything in Israel whether they actually wanted to or not - would firstly not have even a fraction of the many financial benefits to various groups as 'intervention' in Iraq and Afghanistan has, and so long as Israel remains in its current state of control at a minimum its more than enough to satisfy the military and security-benefits for the U.S that Israel can offer through shared intelligence and weapons programmes.
When was the last time you heard about people who aren't Jihadists commiting terrorist attacks?
Islamic jihadism has killed far less people across Europe than home-grown non-Islamic terrorism has. Consider for example the IRA, ETA, Neo-nazi groups - the likes of Anders Breivik for one, ironically fighting against Islamic extremism allegedly. So why the mass-panic and hysteria about Jihadism? Probably because of the constant paranoid propaganda that gets spouted on the news everyday since 9/11. I'd be much more concerned about other aspects of terrorism and homegrown attacks personally. America's own citizens commiting mass-shootings has racked up a toll over half that of 9/11 alone since it happened, and the remaining number of gun-related deaths makes the toll of terrorist attacks pale into insignificance - if I was an American i'd be vastly worried about the threat of my own citizens rather than Islamists - but you won't see much panic-stirring in the media about that, because the likes of the ARA and all the corporations that lobby and back-hand fund many polititions won't appreciate it If protection of America citizens was a priority that would be first on the table, but its not.
More convenient and profitable abroad to continue the hysteria surrounding Islamists, and acts as a great way to encourage people to let the walls of privacy get smashed to pieces on a daily basis to 'protect against Islamists' and also just so happens to let the government get away with an awful lot of data-harvesting that has absolutely nothing to do with Islamists. But hey, as long as we're safe from the big-bad jihadists that are blowing everything up on a daily basis |
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No he doesn't.
Without Israel there'd be no Hamas, they'd be no PLO. To be honest without the west's constant backing of everyone over Muslims they'd probably be now radical Islam.
You can only get people to blow themselves up when their lives are so shit anything else is better.
Israel only wanted a 2 state solution as a stop gap in the beginning as a stop gap before driving Arabs into the sea, and now as a survival method as otherwise the Arabs would out number them and that would be the end of their Jewish state. You can't have a theocracy when the population don't rate your god. |
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G wrote: | I suspect the panic over Islamic terrorism is they have big intentions - and certainly carried that out with with 11/9.
As mentioned previously probably, the benefit to us is that it killed off the IRA, basically.
Quote: | You can only get people to blow themselves up when their lives are so shit anything else is better. |
Really?
So Abdul Waheed Majid blew himself up in Syria because his life in Crawley sucked so much?
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There are other ways to go about finding and removing rocket caches with the assistance of ground forces being a key one, besides having to blanket-bomb large areas and 'precision strike' heavily populated buildings because there may or may not be some rockets nearby. |
Do you not think that would be likely to lead to even more escalated violence, with just the sort of Guerilla warfare Hamas would relish?
Any other suggestions? | There are always headcases, but not enough generally to maintain operations.
It's v simple for Israeli's just leave, it's not your country fuck off back to Europe where you came from. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 9 years, 264 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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