1ºAlex Rodriguez
History check - Israel withdrew from the Gaza strip in 2005. We have nothing to do with them whatsoever, yet the terror organizations within the strip have been firing rockets into Israel continuously, always targeting civillians in densed populated areas, reassuring their goal of eliminating Israel is achieved.
I understand it is very difficult to accept, living afar and usually get a very one sided story, but we live under a continuous terror threat. Imagine having to run to the shelter for cover with your children several times a day, while hearing explosions nearby. Imagine sending them to school, knowing one of their classmates was killed. It's an unbearable reality, and we have the right to defend ourselves from that. What people abroad usually fail to understand is that Israel targets terrorists, their headquarters and weaponary. Hamas, Jihad and other terror groups tagert civillans.
Every country would defend itself in the face of such threats.
2ºHow can we know if someone has fallen a prey to brainwashing? Defending Ukrainians because they face an unequal war at least it is supported and packed by the US and Europe.
But they have a totally different opinion when it comes to Gaza that has been facing unequal war way ages before Ukraine yet there is not a single country supports Gaza.
The 8th wonder of the world is Christian Europeans take Israeli side would they take it if they know how much oppressed and suffering Palestinian Christians are by Israel.
I leave you with links sum up the fact that Christian Palestinians are oppressed, attaked by Israel
https://www.independent.c...ou-6281236.html
https://youtu.be/y11CVGz7toM
https://youtu.be/vaMWogdX4Kc
3ºWilliam George we don't hate the Arabs, we hate the fact that they are committed to our annihilation, that they caller destroy us, that they terrorize us DAILY. Remember, in the 1990's Israel vitedfar left, overwhelming majority of Israelis accepted territorial sacrifices for peace, we gave the Aravs area a,b of Judea & Sanaria and in return Yasser Arafat sent suicide bomberskilling hundreds. In 2006 64% of Israelus voted for disengagement from Gaza, we gave the Arabs our most fertile land of Gush Katif, in return Hamas sag terror tunnels under our cities and they launch THOUSANDS of rockets on central Israel. Our neighbors pushed us to the far right of the political map, our history taught us that our national security is our top priority.
4º"There are two views of the Israeli Military -- what you hear in most of the media, and the truth.
I’m going to tell you the truth.
I was the Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan. I have fought in combat zones around the
world including Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Macedonia and Iraq.I was also present throughout
the conflict in Gaza in 2014.
Based on my experience and on my observations: the Israel Defense Force, the IDF, does more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history
of warfare.
Why is this so?
Firstly, Israel is a decent country with Western values, run on democratic principles. Israel
has no more interest in war than Belgium does. In fact, Israel has never started a war. The
only reason it ever goes to war is to defend itself. And it has to defend itself because, unlike
Belgium, it is surrounded by countries and armed groups that want to destroy it.
Secondly, Judaism, with its unsurpassed moral standards, remains a major influence on the
citizens of Israel. I say this as a non-Jew.
Thirdly, the army is composed overwhelmingly of citizen soldiers.
Israel is a small country with a small professional army. To fight a war it depends on its
conscripts and its reservists. These are ordinary citizens, from professors to plumbers, called
upon to defend their homes. They don’t want to be fighting and they don’t want to harm others.
Nowhere was the essential morality and decency of the IDF more evident than in the Gaza
War of 2014. If ever there was a purely defensive war, this was it.
The war was started by Hamas, the terror organization, designated as such by the US State Department, that runs the Gaza strip. In the first six months of 2014, Hamas launched
hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians.
After repeated warnings from Israel to stop, the Israeli Air Force finally conducted precision
strikes to halt the rocket-fire. And the IDF advanced into Gaza to destroy a network of terror
tunnels that Hamas had constructed to attack Israeli communities near the Gaza border.
The IDF took extraordinary measures to give Gaza civilians notice of targeted areas, dropping
millions of leaflets, broadcasting radio messages, sending texts and making tens of thousands
of phone calls. Let me repeat that. The Israelis called Gazans on their cell phones and told them to leave their residences and move to safety. Never in the history of warfare has an army
phoned its enemy and told them where they are going to drop their bombs.
Many IDF missions that could have taken out Hamas military capabilities were aborted to
prevent civilian casualties, increasing the risk to Israeli citizens and soldiers.
Despite all of this, of course innocent civilians were killed. Every war is chaotic and confusing,
and mistakes are frequent. But mistakes are not war crimes.
Hamas, on the other hand, committed war crimes as official government policy.
Hamas deliberately positioned its military assets among the civilian population, hiding weapons in schools and hospitals, and placing rocket launchers alongside apartment buildings, then forced those civilians to stay in areas they knew would be attacked. They also instructed their people to report the lie that every Gazan killed was a civilian, even if they were actually
fighters.
And if there were no civilian deaths, Hamas made them up! Numerous Internet sites show Palestinians elaborately staging sniper victims and smashed ambulances, among other phony
horrors. It’s so common there’s even a term for it -- Pallywood, as in Palestinian Hollywood.
Ironically, it’s the leaders of Hamas themselves who best understand the extraordinary
measures the IDF will take to protect innocent civilians. They take full advantage of Israel’s decency and adherence to the laws of war.
No army takes such risks in order to protect civilians as the Israeli army does. I say this as a professional soldier. I say it because it’s true. And people who care about truth should know it."
- Colonel Richard Kemp