I think that is a rather insulting thing to say that someone who doesn't have kids does not value the life of a child. That is actually quite disgusting and shocking. Does that mean before you had children you were fine with children being killed? Wow...
What a compelling case completely void of context. Now that you have vaguely referenced potentially 229 children casualties I completely buy in to the notion that a military capable of wiping out all 1.8 million Palestinians in the Gaza strip in a matter of hours is committing genocide....
http://online.wsj.com/articles/thane-rosenbaum-civilian-casualties-in-gaza-1405970362 Hamas's Civilian Death Strategy Gazans shelter terrorists and their weapons in their homes, right beside sofas and dirty diapers. Let's state the obvious: No one likes to see dead children. Well, that's not completely true: Hamas does. They would prefer those children to be Jewish, but there is greater value to them if they are Palestinian. Outmatched by Israel's military, handicapped by rocket launchers with the steady hands of Barney Fife, Hamas is playing the long game of moral revulsion. With this conflict about to enter its third week, winning the PR war is the best Hamas can hope to achieve. Their weapon of choice, however, seems to be the cannon fodder of their own people, performing double duty in also sounding the drumbeat of Israeli condemnation. If you can't beat Iron Dome, then deploy sacrificial children as human shields. Civilian casualties will continue to mount. The evolving story will focus on the collateral damage of Palestinian lives. Israel's moral dilemma will receive little attention. Each time the ledgers of relative loss are reported, world public opinion will turn against the Jewish state and box Israel into an even tighter corner of the Middle East. All the ordinary rules of warfare are upended in Gaza. Everything about this conflict is asymmetrical—Hamas wears no uniforms and they don't meet Israeli soldiers on battlefields. With the exception of kaffiyeh scarves, it isn't possible to distinguish a Hamas militant from a noncombatant pharmacist. In Vietnam, the U.S. military learned guerrilla warfare in jungles. In Gaza, the Jewish state has had to adapt to the altogether surreal terrain of apartment complexes and schoolhouses. There are now reports that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are transporting themselves throughout Gaza in ambulances packed with children. Believe it or not, a donkey laden with explosives detonated just the other day. Rockets fired from the Gaza strip into Israel. AFP/Getty Images The asymmetry is complicated even further by the status of these civilians. Under such maddening circumstances, are the adults, in a legal and moral sense, actual civilians? To qualify as a civilian one has to do more than simply look the part. How you came to find yourself in such a vulnerable state matters. After all, when everyone is wearing casual street clothing, civilian status is shared widely. The people of Gaza overwhelmingly elected Hamas, a terrorist outfit dedicated to the destruction of Israel, as their designated representatives. Almost instantly Hamas began stockpiling weapons and using them against a more powerful foe with a solid track record of retaliation. What did Gazans think was going to happen? Surely they must have understood on election night that their lives would now be suspended in a state of utter chaos. Life expectancy would be miserably low; children would be without a future. Staying alive would be a challenge, if staying alive even mattered anymore. To make matters worse, Gazans sheltered terrorists and their weapons in their homes, right beside ottoman sofas and dirty diapers. When Israel warned them of impending attacks, the inhabitants defiantly refused to leave. On some basic level, you forfeit your right to be called civilians when you freely elect members of a terrorist organization as statesmen, invite them to dinner with blood on their hands and allow them to set up shop in your living room as their base of operations. At that point you begin to look a lot more like conscripted soldiers than innocent civilians. And you have wittingly made yourself targets. It also calls your parenting skills into serious question. In the U.S. if a parent is found to have locked his or her child in a parked car on a summer day with the windows closed, a social worker takes the children away from the demonstrably unfit parent. In Gaza, parents who place their children in the direct line of fire are rewarded with an interview on MSNBC where they can call Israel a genocidal murderer. The absurdity of Israel's Gaza campaigns requires an entirely new terminology for the conduct of wars. "Enemy combatants," "theater of war," "innocent civilians," "casualties of war" all have ambiguous meaning in Gaza. There is nothing casual about why so many Gazans die; these deaths are tragically predictable and predetermined. Hamas builds tunnels for terrorists and their rockets; bomb shelters for the people of Gaza never entered the Hamas leaders' minds. So much innocence is lost in this citizen army, which serves as the armor for demented leaders and their dwindling arsenal of rockets and martyrs. In Gaza the death toll of civilians is an endgame disguised as a tragedy. It is a sideshow—without death, Hamas has nothing to show for its efforts. Surely there are civilians who have been killed in this conflict who have taken every step to distance themselves from this fast-moving war zone, and children whose parents are not card-carrying Hamas loyalists. These are the true innocents of Gaza. It is they for whom our sympathy should be reserved. The impossibility of identifying them, and saving them, is Israel's deepest moral dilemma.
So you have kids? What would you do if 100 rockets a day were being shot at your kid? What type of action would you expect from your government? should they issue a stern warning?
How many of the rockets are hitting those kids in Israel? I am not expecting my government to go kill kids. Why did JayZ not hit Beyonce's sister even though she was wailing on Jay Z.
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So defensive. I'll take that as a no I don't have children from you. It sure seems like some of you are making excuses for why the children are being killed. I'm talking reality while you guys are talking about those scary rockets hypothetically killing children. For now, let's ignore the fact that history shows that Israel needs to stop killing civilians for those effective rockets to stop being fired in the first place. Your last question doesn't merit a serious reply but I'll play. Things change after you have kids. They are your everything. I don't even want to know what those parents are going through. I'm sure they're totally fine though since the children were being used as shields by the adults. SMH.
So your argument is that because the iron dome works really well that ISrael shouldn't react to rockets being fired at their civilians? You would expect them to use military force to stop those firing right? Using military force tends to leads to death of innocent by-standards. Especially when one side use civilians as shields. Because getting punched by a girl has no lingering consequences? Getting hit by a rocket does. It's called death.
You know what happened recently? A doctor was making rounds and guess who showed up dead...just laying there. His son. Another human shield I suppose.
The rockets are not hypothetical and yes rockets being aimed and fired at your neighborhood is scary. I don't know of a one sovereign nation that would not retaliate with force if rockets were being fired at their lands.
Their effectiveness is hypothetical or not so hypothetical I guess. They rarely work. Those scary alarms doe.
Its quite hilarious that a defense to to the notion that Israel should not be retaliating is the Iron Dome works most of the time.
I can quote reporters on the ground that have said as recent as yesterday that they haven't seen ANY evidence of it. It's all speculation. We need a true insider.
Why so dense, homie? Retaliate all they want. Do it without killing civilians. What's so hard to understand here? Just charge it to the game. Amirite
So please tell me of a nation that would not retaliate to rockets being fired at them because the enemy is incompetent. I'll wait for your list.
I don't think you understand the concept of guerrilla warfare and the consequences that it brings forth. Israel is not retaliating against a conventional military.
I would be interested in seeing the quotes. Also, did you find a source regarding the accusation that this Israeli politician said those things that you posted yesterday? I am interested in what your main news sources regarding this conflict are?
