-- Associated Press, Dec. 27
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating.
Israel is so scrupulous about civilian life that, risking the element of surprise, it contacts enemy noncombatants in advance to warn them of approaching danger. Hamas, which started this conflict with unrelenting rocket and mortar attacks on unarmed Israelis -- 6,464 launched from Gaza in the past three years -- deliberately places its weapons in and near the homes of its own people.
(Read More) at the Washington Post
Source: Brooksbayne on Twitter
Note: Israel has been militarily occupying the Gaza and West Bank region for app. the past 40 years.
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Enemy noncombatants?
Civilians, you mean? Civilians that are not proven members of Hamas - the 'enemy'?
Or is Israel, as the world increasingly is coming to believe, truly declaring war on all Palestinians? Which would make these people, then, the 'enemy noncombatans' you describe.
I honestly believe you have no idea of the conditions these people have been reduced to by months of blockade and embargo.
Those 6,000 rockets likely contained less explosive than one single barrage from the highly equipped Israeli forces. They certainly managed to kill less people (civilian or otherwise) with those famous 6,000 projectiles than Israel killed in any single night of its operations against Gaza.
Moral clarity indeed.
I'm merely presenting information.
Those words are not my own with the exception of the note at the end.
Although I do kind of sway more toward Israel's side and I do believe they are defending themselves.
Granted, the area has been militarily occupied, the issue is more than just enemy non-combatants defending themselves against military occupation.
As I've started to read and learn more about the issue, the Israel vs Palestinian situation seems to be tied more closely to remnants of the past war and I think it involves Iran and Syria using the Gaza situation as a way to attack Israel.
The truth is, no one in the Middle East has wanted Israel to be it's own state from it's conception. From that perspective, I believe that Israel is trying to defend itself. I would presume it's a fine line of defense, security and the inhumanity of military occupation.
But what else is Israel supposed to do? :/
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