If their house is being used to launch or store or build rockets, or is shares a wall with a building that is being used to launch or store or build rockets, is it then reasonable to have them leave before that building is blown up?
(I think yes.) There can be legitimate questions on how accurate the information is, and how well vetted, and if it is true at all. (that the Israeli munition hit a legitimate target, and that it was the target it was being aimed for). That should be looked into. But the very fact that it should be looked into shows that we are holding the Israelis to a different standard than we are the Palestinians. How often are we asking if the rockets are being aimed at legitimate targets? There can be legitimate questions as to whether the people in those houses are supporting or have control over the actions of the Hamas militants with the rockets and their placement. If they don't, then leaving the area while a war is going on seems like a good idea. And the fact that they are even being warned it helpful (I know I would leave, even if it was to go sit in a field by myself, or huddle in a UN school like so many are.) If they do, then they are participants, albeit non-combatants. The fact that the war so far has had such limited casualties is frankly amazing. Picture if you will London. Or Paris. Or Dresden. Or Tokyo. Or Srebrenica. Or Sarajevo. Or Basra. The fact that there are kids in Gaza crouching in horror and fear is heartbreaking when I imagine it. I can remember crouching in fear from tornados and hurricanes and once from an escaped murderer from a local mental hospital loose in our neighborhood. I remember those events clearly. I try to imagine how much worse these kids are experiencing, and just cannot. It is horrible. But as long as Hamas is the government, and is playing these games with people's lives, I don't see how to end it. â ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371513 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
