I never claimed what that Israel's response was not justified (and I am still not saying whether or not I think it is), rather that Israel should not be absolved of any civilian deaths as a result of their counter-attack solely because they warned people ahead of time.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > I get what you and Scott are saying, but what is Israel supposed to do? > They are having a rather large number of missiles fired at them. Some of > them to parts of Israel that no one thought they could reach. A ground > force would be a huge escalation and the potential house to house combat > could easily end up with as many civilians killed as air assault, though > Hamas weapons might do more of the killing in that case. And there would be > a great many more Israeli deaths. > > I absolutely do not believe that the aerial assault is the right thing to > do on the part of Israel. But I also don't see what other options they have > at this point. They should have gone down a very different political route > well before this round of escalation, but they didn't. I fault them for > that. But at this point, they are being attacked and I don't see a way to > respond that does not incur significant civilian casualties because the > legitimate targets (the ones firing the missiles) are mixed into a dense > civilian population. > > Short of a cease fire that both sides can agree to, this is just going to > play out as a tragedy on both sides. > > Judah > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > ᧠> > Yeah. > > > > After demolishing buildings, slaughtering entire families...they call a > > cease fire. > > > > right. > > > > I stand by my view that it should never have happened in the first place. > > Use of force on that scale,and with so many civilian casualties should > > never be justified. > > > > On 15 July 2014 10:06, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > So over night the Israelis took part in a cease fire organized by > Egypt. > > > > > > Hamas chose not to take part and fired 50 additional missiles > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:371548 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
