The Israeli military said it carried out more than 70 air strikes in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday against militants, rocket launching sites and weapons caches, and that the Islamist group fired at least 30 rockets across the border.Medical officials in the Gaza Strip said the Palestinian death toll had risen to 784. Hamas officials said more than a third were children. Ten Israeli soldiers have been killed, as well as three civilians hit by Hamas rocket fire.
Make sure you read that correctly. Israel is in Hamas's backyard, knocking on the door and about to pound it in. They're about to come in and shut everything down and Hamas is not concerned with stopping that threat -- only with continuing to target Israeli civilians in southern Israel. I don't understand how anyone can grant them validity. Oh, wait, I do. They clearly are out for nothing more than the destruction of Jews.
Not to mention the bit about how they claim that one third of the victims of the offensive have been children. Considering that most estimates say that around 20-25% of all deaths in Gaza have been civilians, that would mean that if it had risen, the death toll would be one hundred percent children. As if the IDF is hunting down and murdering children.
Now, it is true that Hamas officials have claimed the death toll to be as high as 40%, but that still means that almost all civilian deaths in Gaza have been children. Are we to believe that when the bombs dropped on Gaza, that all the parents shoved their children outside so that they'd be vaporized once the planes past overhead? I'm at least confident that most people in Gaza want their children to live, not to die.
Considering the anti-semitic nature of this organization, I'm going to go ahead and put it out there for the protesters who claim not to be anti-semitic, but simply defending the rights of the Palestinians: If you support an obviously anti-semitic organization like Hamas, then you are supporting and promoting anti-semitism which implies that you yourself are anti-semitic.
Congrats on the new blog! I'll link it to mine.
ReplyDeleteDon't lower yourself to making strawman arguments. Defending the rights of Palestinians, which the Israelis have been trampling over, is not at all the same as supporting Hamas.
ReplyDeleteStrawman arguments are meant to distract the reader from the real issue, and the issue of my argument is support for Hamas. The fact of the matter is that many of the protests do in fact chant "Hamas! Hamas! Hamas!" as is evidenced by a search on youtube, which, as I said, implies anti-semitism in and of itself.
ReplyDeleteAnd Israel's right to defend itself from attacks on its civilians trumps even Hamas's bloodlust for the deaths of the people it claims to defend. You can call foul on Israel, but I must wonder why you say nothing of how horrible Hamas is.