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Originally Posted by Livia
You'd think Israel was firing into Gaza for no reason. While Israel's reaction is way over the top, Hamas aren't exactly all sweeteness and light. And I would remind everyone that this latest bout of violence was sparked when three innocent Israeli teenagers were murdered by Hamas.
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By the Hebron branch of Hamas operating on its' own, as it has done for decades as it's largely controlled by organised criminals.
Israel used their deaths as an excuse to "retaliate"; i.e.carry out attacks that they already wanted to carry out and had already basically pre-planned, waiting only for the slightest reason to pull the trigger.
Both sides in this conflict are in the grips of "war psychology"... committing atrocities with very little scope for empathy; both believing they are on the "right side". Of course Hamas are not all sweetness and light, but that's the very reason that they are in unchallenged control. The civilians feel powerless and are being offered ways to "fight back". Unfortunately, those ways are ineffective against a military funded to the tune of
several billion by the United States. Like throwing pebbles at an Apache attack helicopter.
BUT, if you take all of that out of the equation; the questionable Hamas leaders, the entirely disproportionate Israeli response, the decades-long sea blockades designed to keep the Palestinian economy barely functional... if you go right back... it boils down to this, for me:
There is no justification for the formation of the state of Israel in international law.
Absolutely none. It should never have happened, it was always destined to be an absolute disaster, it was largely pushed through out of guilt, and partly because Western powers found the idea of having a pet-state plonked down in that area of the word very attractive. But I don't think they foresaw quite this level of bloodthirstiness. They lost control of their puppy. Now it's just a ****ing mess.