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Thread #150703   Message #3642679
Posted By: Steve Shaw
16-Jul-14 - 06:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
There is less point in arguing with those that support Hamas in killing their own civilians and committing crimes against humanity by mass anti-personnel rocket attacks against Israeli civilians. But there is no harm in putting the FACTS out there, and letting people know that there ARE two sides to the conflict.

I have picked which one I support.

Some have picked the other side, and I have my opinion of them.


You want facts, so here's an inconvenient one for you. Hamas does not kill its own civilians. Much as it might give you indigestion, each and every death in Gaza has been caused by an Israeli gun or an Israeli bomb, set off in every single case by an Israeli. Had Israel not fired that gun or exploded that bomb, there would have been no death. It is not possible, once that death has occurred, to say that Hamas killed that person.

As for "your opinion of them", I should like to suggest that you confine your "opinion" to what is being said and is not, instead, directed at the person. The latter stance is precisely the reason that conflicts such as this one are ten times harder to resolve.

It might also be more constructive if you were to tell us why "you have picked the one you support". That's quite hard work, isn't it, compared to your undeniable and rather lazy display of prejudice.