LOL Israel

[Hoosier]

Do you think the people that hate Israel would start getting along with them if they didn’t shoot on that boat?

No. But can you turn your logic around, and ask this, "Do you think Israel gained more enemies who will seek to attack them because they killed these 9 people"

Bottom line…Those soldiers were fighting for the men next to them when they were getting beat and shot by people you call "activists". Anyone who thinks that soldiers should just stand by when their buddies get killed is just spineless.

My debate isn't about the soldiers. It's about the commanders who sent their guys to fast rope into a mob. It's about the incredibly stupid way Israel decided to handle this situation. They knew in advance there were no weapons on the ships, there were plenty of videos of them being loaded. $10 says Mossad had it's own sleepers on those boats. This flotilla was a ruse by other countries to get Israel to do something stupid, which is what it did. If Israel had let the ships land, it would have gotten minimal press. The Israeli blockade of Palestine would have kept out of the international spotlight.

The conflict between Israel and Palestine isn't one that will be won with guns. They IDF can roll over Gaza every day of the week, and each time they kill an innocent father of 12, they get six new age 6 to 18 sons sworn to get vengeance against the infidels. There are no easy solutions for the Knesset, and where they could be working with Fatah in the West Bank to show the Gazans that life after cooperating with Israel gets better, they continue to build settlements in the outskirts of Jerusalem.

Israels many wars and constant fighting has put it in the mindset of "do anything and everything to protect our citizens" without giving sufficient regard to the long term consequences. It has turned it's arab citizens (Israeli's of Arab decent) into second class citizens. For the Gazans it is literally an apartheid state. If Israel gives full voting rights to the non-Jewish residents, they will be in the minority in a generation or less. So in order to maintain a "Jewish State" they're going to have to make some ugly choices.


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