Israel and Palestinians are often the subject of discussion on this board as it was last night. Sides are taken and barbs are slung.
#1: Israel is occupying land that the Palestinians consider to be their land.
#2: Israel has a military with sophisticated weapons of war supplied by the US.
#3: The Palestinians do not have a military and do not have sophisticated weapons of war.
#4: The Palestinians wage war against Israel in an effort to regain what they consider to be their land in the only way they can. Not having a military and weapons of war they use human weapons.
#5: Israel and most of the world bemoan the suicide bomber attacks on their civilian populace. Does anyone think their anger would be any less if the suicide attacks were against their soldiers. Does anyone think that if the airplanes that were flown into the WTC would have been flown into military barracks at Fort Bragg, or anyother military base, without civilians aboard, that our anger would have been any less because it was only soldiers that were killed.
#5: Civilians are killed in all wars, as collateral damage, but also are specifically targeted.
#6. In our own wars (including the civil war) we purposely targeted civilians and during the Second World War we targeted civilians on a massive scale. In the Korean war we purposely targeted civilians in some circumstances and in Vietnam we did the same.
My point is; this is the real world and real bad things happen in the real world. Throwing barbs back and forth does not solve anything, and in case of the warring factions, it just increases tensions, and tit for tat responses, where lives are lost, just increases the hatred.
#1: Israel is occupying land that the Palestinians consider to be their land.
#2: Israel has a military with sophisticated weapons of war supplied by the US.
#3: The Palestinians do not have a military and do not have sophisticated weapons of war.
#4: The Palestinians wage war against Israel in an effort to regain what they consider to be their land in the only way they can. Not having a military and weapons of war they use human weapons.
#5: Israel and most of the world bemoan the suicide bomber attacks on their civilian populace. Does anyone think their anger would be any less if the suicide attacks were against their soldiers. Does anyone think that if the airplanes that were flown into the WTC would have been flown into military barracks at Fort Bragg, or anyother military base, without civilians aboard, that our anger would have been any less because it was only soldiers that were killed.
#5: Civilians are killed in all wars, as collateral damage, but also are specifically targeted.
#6. In our own wars (including the civil war) we purposely targeted civilians and during the Second World War we targeted civilians on a massive scale. In the Korean war we purposely targeted civilians in some circumstances and in Vietnam we did the same.
My point is; this is the real world and real bad things happen in the real world. Throwing barbs back and forth does not solve anything, and in case of the warring factions, it just increases tensions, and tit for tat responses, where lives are lost, just increases the hatred.
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