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In reply to the discussion: 13 Israeli soldiers killed overnight in Gaza [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)"If your country is being attacked, you go to where the enemy is and stop them." Sounds like what some Palestinians just tried to do in shooting back at the Israeli soldiers. Though of course there's no stopping the IDF. Unless we can get the U.S. to stop supplying it, maybe that would move something.
As for "If Hamas would stop the rockets," well then we see what happens when they do. They just did stop, for several years. When Israeli leaders decide there's a good domestic political reason to start bombing Gaza, as they just did, however, then they bomb Gaza. Then some of those Hamas rockets fly into Israel, pointlessly (no credit for smarts among anyone launching rockets, on any side). With a bit of time-machine magic, the Israeli bombing of helpless civilians in an occupied territory, a million plus people trapped in an open-air prison, can then be blamed on the Palestinian response. Voila.