Your response is filled with incorrect assumptions. "do whatever it wants"? Israel is - and HAS BEEN - reacting to constant attacks from Palestinians. The checkpoints, the blockade, the violent responses are all the result of being - CONSTANTLY - attacked in the first place. Please point me to a country that would put up with being attac…
Your response is filled with incorrect assumptions. "do whatever it wants"? Israel is - and HAS BEEN - reacting to constant attacks from Palestinians. The checkpoints, the blockade, the violent responses are all the result of being - CONSTANTLY - attacked in the first place. Please point me to a country that would put up with being attacked on a daily basis? As for "bloodlust"? Civilians are killed in almost every war and they are killed far more often than they have been in this war. Which is doubly remarkable given that Hamas is using their civilians as shields. This is also an overt and ongoing war crime, but hey, it's Hamas, what can we do? You can be Israel and try to wipe them out as much as you can. Listen, I get that Palestinians feel Israel shouldn't exist at all and should've never been created by those evil Western powers (unlike non-Western powers who ruthlessly avoided slavery and building empires of their own), but it's not going anywhere. And for the record: there's a reason why the Israel bashers can only compare the death tolls to 21st century conflicts or "recent conflict in a single year". If they start the clock any earlier, Israel has been - by MOST 20th century measures - extremely restrained. https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/more-women-and-children-killed-gaza-israeli-military-any-other-recent-conflict
Your response is filled with incorrect assumptions. "do whatever it wants"? Israel is - and HAS BEEN - reacting to constant attacks from Palestinians. The checkpoints, the blockade, the violent responses are all the result of being - CONSTANTLY - attacked in the first place. Please point me to a country that would put up with being attacked on a daily basis? As for "bloodlust"? Civilians are killed in almost every war and they are killed far more often than they have been in this war. Which is doubly remarkable given that Hamas is using their civilians as shields. This is also an overt and ongoing war crime, but hey, it's Hamas, what can we do? You can be Israel and try to wipe them out as much as you can. Listen, I get that Palestinians feel Israel shouldn't exist at all and should've never been created by those evil Western powers (unlike non-Western powers who ruthlessly avoided slavery and building empires of their own), but it's not going anywhere. And for the record: there's a reason why the Israel bashers can only compare the death tolls to 21st century conflicts or "recent conflict in a single year". If they start the clock any earlier, Israel has been - by MOST 20th century measures - extremely restrained. https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/more-women-and-children-killed-gaza-israeli-military-any-other-recent-conflict