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In reply to the discussion: Israel vows to destroy Hamas tunnels [View all]Orrex
(63,057 posts)41. Have you seen pictures of the tunnels?
How strong an invasion force do you think you can sneak into Israel when they're walking single-file with no head room?
Military assessments always start with capabilities, not intentions
Not really. Military assessments very often start with an agenda that provides a strong incentive to find evidence of intention. Hell, I'm fine with whatever assessment you want to formulate: assess your ass off, as far as I'm concerned. But as soon as you start bombing civilians, you need to do better than "Honest! They were going to attack us in some unknown way at some unknown time in the future."
No matter what you imagine Hamas might one day try to accomplish with its narrow and claustrophobic tunnels, the fact remains that Israel is murdering Palestinian civilians in broad daylight with no justification whatsoever. Everything that you say about Hamas' "intention" is guess work and does not justify Israel's ongoing campaign of slaugher.
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If Hamas had not fired rockets not one Palestinian in Gaza would have been killed.
former9thward
Jul 2014
#46
Even if that were true, how many Palestinian civilians does Israel get to murder?
Orrex
Jul 2014
#51
Well if you think that analogy is equivalent then there is nothing to discuss.
former9thward
Aug 2014
#81
The exits are supposedly in Israel. They could handle it from that end with very little death toll.
jwirr
Jul 2014
#9
Why does my tone bother you more than Israel's deliberate murder of Palestinian civilians?
Orrex
Jul 2014
#56
If Israel can claim self defense against a population that it is brutalizing and severely oppressing
cpwm17
Jul 2014
#10
The West Bank Palestinian people and their Gov. asked Hamas to accept ceasefire & were also refused.
Sunlei
Jul 2014
#12
Once ground troops went in the hamas"Gov" was toast. They had their chances to accept ceasefire.
Sunlei
Jul 2014
#17
no other country supports hamas either. not even their neighbor egypt will allow woman/childen in.
Sunlei
Jul 2014
#22