"Israel ruthlessly and cold-bloodedly killing . . ."
Really? What is your battle plan for destroying Hamas while not injuring non-combatants in Gaza? Please lay out how Israel should conduct this war so we may all learn your kinder and gentler way of destroying terrorists who just murdered 1,500 of your citizens. You don't get to say "Jus…
"Israel ruthlessly and cold-bloodedly killing . . ."
Really? What is your battle plan for destroying Hamas while not injuring non-combatants in Gaza? Please lay out how Israel should conduct this war so we may all learn your kinder and gentler way of destroying terrorists who just murdered 1,500 of your citizens. You don't get to say "Just don't kill innocents!" You have to tell us how your war would differ from current.
Antisemitic attacks on Jews in the United States are not "paper cuts." If you think otherwise, put on traditional Jewish garb and go strolling. You'd be lucky to come out with only paper cuts. Yes, Gaza has an aneurism. But that aneurism was caused by Hamas and those who support it, not Israel, which was doubling the number of permits for Gazans to work in Israel last October (i.e., expanding good relations) when Hamas decided the mass-murder of Jews would be good sport.
I found an old button from my days in college (class of ‘70) that reads “War is not the answer”
I still believe that, but will admit I still don’t know what the answer is.
I do know that accepting war as the answer leads to continuing the invention and manufacture of ever more expensive and deadly weapons. And I know that sending those weapons to those who accept the premise of war as the answer has never worked to settle differences.
War always and only results in lost lives, damaged people, and massive destruction of habitat and environment.
Can it really be that there is no alternative to violence? Can violence ever lead to peace?
I wholeheartedly agree with you in the abstract, Victor: War is the worst of all options if you have any others you can choose. That said, humanity loves war. If it didn't, there wouldn't be at least one on the planet any given day of any given year. We are hard-wired to war and conflict, it seems. The other is that most wars are avoidable but some aren't. Israel-Hamas is the latter. All Hamas had to do to avoid all this was not murder Israelis. But it did, and now Israel will finish this fight it didn't start. I find this war sad because of the number of innocent deaths on both sides, but not immoral because Israel has no choice but to fight it.
You still want to start the whole Hamas shtick? You want to tell me you have to starve thousands of children, cut off water, cut off electricity, destroy the entire medical system, destroy practically all housing, destroy all universities and schools, throw rockets and children playgrounds, force women giving birth - including caesareans - without anaesthetics, because you can't find Hamas? Which, by the way, is still not and will not be beaten by the most moral army in the world. How bloody incompetent is this most moral army in the world? Let Putin have a go - he managed to kill "only" 10,000 civilians so far, about 500 of them children.
But let's not play this silly game - we all know the Gaza war has nothing to do with Hamas or hostages - the Gaza war is about Israel "cleansing" Gaza (and later the Westbank, they seem to have already started) from Palestinians, also called genocide, or massmurder, or lots and lots and lots of killing, if you prefer. The reason I know that is that I listen to Israeli politicians and the Israeli parliament. There they tell you on a daily basis, you just have to listen.
My guess is that the powers to be are hanging in the rafters, waiting for the when they'll give Bibi the boot, they will then say "He was the war criminal, bad, bad Bibi. Well, he's gone now, nothing to see here, lets just all move on" And the West - or what's left of it - will lap it up 😂😂😂, the rest of the world probably not so much.
Israel will probably never be held accountable - which will be just another little step to help the US on the way down from the superpower throne.
So far the governments in the West still toe the US/Israeli set line - the populations world-wide may just teach them better. And no industrial-military-complex dick swinging will be able to control that.
"Israel ruthlessly and cold-bloodedly killing . . ."
Really? What is your battle plan for destroying Hamas while not injuring non-combatants in Gaza? Please lay out how Israel should conduct this war so we may all learn your kinder and gentler way of destroying terrorists who just murdered 1,500 of your citizens. You don't get to say "Just don't kill innocents!" You have to tell us how your war would differ from current.
Antisemitic attacks on Jews in the United States are not "paper cuts." If you think otherwise, put on traditional Jewish garb and go strolling. You'd be lucky to come out with only paper cuts. Yes, Gaza has an aneurism. But that aneurism was caused by Hamas and those who support it, not Israel, which was doubling the number of permits for Gazans to work in Israel last October (i.e., expanding good relations) when Hamas decided the mass-murder of Jews would be good sport.
I found an old button from my days in college (class of ‘70) that reads “War is not the answer”
I still believe that, but will admit I still don’t know what the answer is.
I do know that accepting war as the answer leads to continuing the invention and manufacture of ever more expensive and deadly weapons. And I know that sending those weapons to those who accept the premise of war as the answer has never worked to settle differences.
War always and only results in lost lives, damaged people, and massive destruction of habitat and environment.
Can it really be that there is no alternative to violence? Can violence ever lead to peace?
I wholeheartedly agree with you in the abstract, Victor: War is the worst of all options if you have any others you can choose. That said, humanity loves war. If it didn't, there wouldn't be at least one on the planet any given day of any given year. We are hard-wired to war and conflict, it seems. The other is that most wars are avoidable but some aren't. Israel-Hamas is the latter. All Hamas had to do to avoid all this was not murder Israelis. But it did, and now Israel will finish this fight it didn't start. I find this war sad because of the number of innocent deaths on both sides, but not immoral because Israel has no choice but to fight it.
You still want to start the whole Hamas shtick? You want to tell me you have to starve thousands of children, cut off water, cut off electricity, destroy the entire medical system, destroy practically all housing, destroy all universities and schools, throw rockets and children playgrounds, force women giving birth - including caesareans - without anaesthetics, because you can't find Hamas? Which, by the way, is still not and will not be beaten by the most moral army in the world. How bloody incompetent is this most moral army in the world? Let Putin have a go - he managed to kill "only" 10,000 civilians so far, about 500 of them children.
But let's not play this silly game - we all know the Gaza war has nothing to do with Hamas or hostages - the Gaza war is about Israel "cleansing" Gaza (and later the Westbank, they seem to have already started) from Palestinians, also called genocide, or massmurder, or lots and lots and lots of killing, if you prefer. The reason I know that is that I listen to Israeli politicians and the Israeli parliament. There they tell you on a daily basis, you just have to listen.
My guess is that the powers to be are hanging in the rafters, waiting for the when they'll give Bibi the boot, they will then say "He was the war criminal, bad, bad Bibi. Well, he's gone now, nothing to see here, lets just all move on" And the West - or what's left of it - will lap it up 😂😂😂, the rest of the world probably not so much.
Israel will probably never be held accountable - which will be just another little step to help the US on the way down from the superpower throne.
So far the governments in the West still toe the US/Israeli set line - the populations world-wide may just teach them better. And no industrial-military-complex dick swinging will be able to control that.
See my answer to your other rant-lette.