What Am I Missing? - Israel and Hamas (Palestinians)

[roberth]

One side allows Arabs to live in peace and practice their religion unmolested. One side wants to murder the Jews, destroy Israel and the United States.

One side has a democratically elected government, the other side has elected a terrorist organization whose stated goal is to destroy Israel and kill the Jews.

One felt our sorrow and showed sympathy., the other side side cheered on 9/11

One side gets rocketed daily and is condemned when it defends itself, the other side gets a free pass to murder Jews.

What do I have wrong here?

[Sharpienads]

One side allows Arabs to live in peace and practice their religion unmolested. One side wants to murder the Jews, destroy Israel and the United States.

One side has a democratically elected government, the other side has elected a terrorist organization whose stated goal is to destroy Israel and kill the Jews.

One side cheered on 9/11, the other side felt our sorrow and showed sympathy.

One side gets rocketed daily and is condemned when it defends itself, the other side gets a free pass to murder Jews.

What do I have wrong here?

Sounds like you got it pretty much covered to me.

[Mick-Boy]

Most of it. Or rather you're cherry picking the best and worst interpretations respectively.

It's bright and early in my AO and I've got work to do. I'll get back to this tonight but I'll leave you with a couple of questions; Are you supporting America's interest or Israel's? Are those the same things or different? Can their interests be opposed to each other?

Just food for thought. I'll give you a better response when I make it back tonight.

[mcantar18c]

Sounds like you got it pretty much covered to me.

Me too.
As I see it, one side is rightfully living on their land (as given to them in the Bible and by the UN), and the other side is butthurt about it.

[Byte Stryke]

you got it all figured out there Robert.
Not sure why you haven't been appointed to the peace talks.

[Ridge]

The Israelis aren't exactly the pure white knights you describe them as. They have been bulldozing Palestinian neighborhoods and arresting anybody too slow to get away. They've apparently got enough Palestinians locked away to trade over a thousand of them for a single captured Israeli.

But the rest of it seems accurate.

[roberth]

Most of it. Or rather you're cherry picking the best and worst interpretations respectively.

It's bright and early in my AO and I've got work to do. I'll get back to this tonight but I'll leave you with a couple of questions; Are you supporting America's interest or Israel's? Are those the same things or different? Can their interests be opposed to each other?

Just food for thought. I'll give you a better response when I make it back tonight.

I look forward to your responses and I'll give some thought overnight to your questions too. Thank you.

[roberth]

you got it all figured out there Robert.
Not sure why you haven't been appointed to the peace talks.

I'm certain I'm going to learn something. It won't matter if I like it or not, the facts are the facts.

[roberth]

The Israelis aren't exactly the pure white knights you describe them as. They have been bulldozing Palestinian neighborhoods and arresting anybody too slow to get away. They've apparently got enough Palestinians locked away to trade over a thousand of them for a single captured Israeli.

But the rest of it seems accurate.

I'm sure the Israelis have a somewhat muddy past just like these United States.

Bulldozing, depends on where it is I suppose and whether or not terrorist attacks were planned and carried out from those neighborhoods.

Let's see who a few of the released Palestinians were shall we.

Those being freed include the founders of Hamas’s armed wing and militants who kidnapped and killed Israeli soldiers and civilians. A mastermind of the 2001 bombing of a Jerusalem pizzeria that killed 15 will walk out of prison, as will a woman who used the Internet to lure a lovesick Israeli teenager to a Palestinian city and had him murdered.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/wo...-in-trade.html

I'm thinking the Israelis are going to have to endure some more murders at the hands of these upstanding human beings.

[Sharpienads]

I don't think anybody is going to tell you that Israel is the pure white knight, but the difference is Israel can get along with others. It's the others that want to see Israel removed. I'm sure Israel has done some pretty harsh, violent, whatever things, but if it came down to my survival, I would do the same thing.