Kate wrote:have to live with the assaults and retaliation from Israel who have the weapons and are using them
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Sorry Kate, I have to take exception to this here.
I was typing a reply this morning when my internet connection went down and I lost it.
What Are Israel doing? They are using WWII Artillery with 21st century aiming devices which make a level of precision never dreamed of by the WWII artillery regiments. They are putting their own troops on the ground and losing lives in the process.
Why?
Because to use their truly powerful 21st century weapons to destroy these tunnels would mean wholesale destruction of wide areas of land. Massive destruction of buildings and, if the people don't leave, not dozens or hundreds dead, but thousands dead.
They are putting their own soldiers lives at risk for no other reason than to save the lives of Palestinians who are being used as shields by Hamas.
Go look for that in the press. You won't find it.
Believe me, the difference between an artillery shell and a 2,000 lb bunker buster bomb dropped by an aircraft or an even larger bunker buster bomb dropped by a missile is orders of magnitude more dangerous and destructive than the precision shelling which is going on.
I truly hate the shoddy and biased way that the press put over what is going on. Israel has no option but to do something to stop Hamas. Hamas, on the other hand has every option in the world. Starting with choosing to stop murdering Israeli civilians.
Honestly, this will never end because Hamas will never stop murdering Israeli's until they have every last one out of Israel. My views on this are clear. If I was in charge of Israel, I'd create a new island in the med, populate it with enough earth to farm land, give them green energy and green desalination for water, state of the art sewage treatment and then I'd empty every Palestinian from the border grounds of Israel onto the Island. Then I'd turn the ground emptied into a Unesco wildlife park/forest and I'd patrol the borders. Anyone trying to get in or out of it shot on sight.
End of story. End of reason for strife. End of excuse. End of Hamas using Palestinian civilians as hostages.
Of course it will never happen and the murder and counter strikes will continue for ever.
Then again, the Jewish race are used to the rest of the world casually abusing and murdering their people. It happened for 2,000 years. At least they have a homeland again.
I have no sympathy with the Palestinians. Hamas are a bunch of red handed murderers and the majority of the population of the Palestinian territories support them in that murder but bleat when they suffer the consequences. I also won't listen to them hiding behind women and children.
After all, who reviled the Christians in Beirut for all those long years of war? Or the Moslems? Nobody. Yet far more people were killed. It's very easy to blame the Israeli's for this action. Yet we moan and complain that our troops are being murdered in Afghanistan and when civilians are caught in the cross fire of our troops defending themselves it's "acceptable". I'm sorry but the Moslem murderers in Afghanistan are the same as Hamas. We have a right to fight back even though it's only our troops who are being killed, not our civilians. The Israelis do not? Sorry but that's not working for me.