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Originally Posted by Dantheman62
Don't throw rocks at me, but I want to point out that it was Hamas that had been sending rockets into Israel every single day to start with. How long would Texas put up with Mexico sending rockets in everyday?, or how long would Ireland put up with Scotland sending in rockets everyday?, or the UK getting rockets everyday sent down on them? Not very long!
Hamas is backed by Syria and Iran and in Gaza hiding amongst the civilians making them hard to get at.
So what was the original reason that Hamas had to send rockets into Israel? Were they being deprived of goods or property?, were they being starved out by Israel?
Just wondering, and of course I'm not picking sides at all because I don't follow the situation enough to even know what's really going on there.
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It is true that Hamas has been firing rockets into Israel- I
think 3 Isreali's have died in those attacks. It's also true that it was the Palestinians who refused to sign a new cease-fire agreement when the old one expired. What isn't being reported in the western media is why.
As I understand it (and I'm open to correction here) the Israeli's had Gaza under seige, pretty much in the traditional sense of the word. Nothing gets in or out. That includes food, medical supplies and all the other things that people need to live. They allowed a trickle of the aid that's been sent to get in but that's all, keeping the Palestinians on the brink of starvation and prone to disease, and also denying them the medicines they needed to fight the effects of the deprivation.
So Hamas had a choice- either watch their people die slowly through starvation and illness or fight back militarily in their severely limited way and invite the Israeli response we see now. In a nutshell, die slow or die fast.
It isn't the first time the media have manipulated our perception of events surrounding the Gaza situation. I remember not long ago when Hamas launched "unprovoked" rocket attacks on Isreal, with very similar consequences. The media were all over it of course, condemning the Palestinian "Terrorists" for their assault.
What they neglected to mention was that in the preceding couple of weeks Israeli warships had been shelling Palestinian beaches full of civilians, killing some and injuring many more. Somehow that little detail never made it into the western media either.
Same ****, different day. The Isrealis provoke the attacks through what amount to war crimes, the western media and nations turn a blind eye and then condemn the Palestinians when they are forced to respond.
As always, the truth is probably somewhere in between, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that it's a lot closer to what isn't being reported than what is.