Reply #8: I know you don't, but there's others that do...

[Violet_Crumble]

Israel of course has the right to respond to violations of its sovereignty - it's the way in which it does so that I object to as they're OTT and cause so much death and destruction to ordinary Palestinians in Gaza...

While I do believe there's blame to go around for all parties when it comes to this conflict, when it comes to reactions to attacks by Israel on Gaza and rocket attacks on and around Sderot, I'd find it a bit strange if there was some carefully balanced equal time thing for both. I know that I find there's not a lot to say about rocket attacks from Gaza, apart from the obvious things like I totally oppose them and stating that I really don't have much of an idea how to stop them. When it comes to OCL, there's a whole lot more to say because unlike rocket attacks on Israel, there are attempts to blame those being attacked for the attacks, there's denial of what happened, there's a vastly huger amount of death and destruction, and there's also people here at DU who justify OCL and don't think Israel should be criticised at all for what it did. Of course when you look at those factors, it's clear why there's more discussion about OCL than about rocket attacks launched from Gaza into Israel, though of course the poster you applied to further up wasn't claiming an imbalance, but insisting there's actual silence at DU, which there isn't...