Soren wrote on Jun 18^th, 2011 at 11:05pm:


Oh please.  Israel spends the highest proportion of its national budget on defence, and it isn't just for helmets and boots.  And I'm sure, as shown by the 2008 Christmas Gaza conflict that they can distinguish military vs civilian. During that conflict, they recognised several buildings which happened to be apartment buildings, schools and hospitals, as military objectives.  And even though after they called for citizens to be evacuated from those buildings, and that call was not answered by Hamas, they still had an obligation to ensure that they conducted a proportional attack; the onus did not go away.  In the end, Israel is a democratic country with a vast western ideology, and because of that, regardless of how much anger you, and I, have for the actions of Hamas I will always hold Israel to a higher level because they fight to protect the values I cherish as my own.  For them to ignore their duty only means Israel's government is no better than the people they fight.   

I promise you that it sickens me to death to know Hamas has in their political ledger not only the denouncement of Israel but a statement declaring the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jewish people.  That doesn't however mean we go out and start killing palestinian people and draw blood to show superiority.