Israel doesn't tolerate its citizens being kidnapped tortured and murdered. Good on Israel.
Israel launches Gaza air strike after bodies of missing teens found
Israel launches Gaza air strike after bodies of missing teens found
Who or what is the international community?What really needs to happen is for the international community to step back and let these 2 duke it out.... Won't end things for good, but maybe they can squeeze in 30-40 years of reduced hostilities
Israel doesn't tolerate its citizens being kidnapped tortured and murdered. Good on Israel.
Israel launches Gaza air strike after bodies of missing teens found
Who or what is the international community?
Throw into the mix Evangelical Christians who believe in and try to promote Armageddon and the Great Simplification, and you have crazies poking everyone in the nuts.
Who or what is the international community?
Throw into the mix Evangelical Christians who believe in and try to promote Armageddon and the Great Simplification, and you have crazies poking everyone in the nuts.
The religious roots of this conflict should give us all pause.
Christian intolerance of Jewry in Europe helped spawn Zionism; then, the holocaust during WW2 forced many Jews to reconsider their place in majority-Christian nations.
The modern Exodus, the violent establisment of Israel, and the displacement of both Muslim and Christian Palestinians, who ethnically are the same as the Jews of two millenia ago, didn't endear the new Israelis to the locals.
Now religious hatred on both sides, the further displacement of Palestinians through settlements, and the wall fan the violence.
The uneven treatment by the West particularly the US is seen as hypocritical, and is destabilising throughout the Middle East.
What to do? Not much now, but try to be a lot more even handed in dealing with both sides.
Church/synagogue/mosque anyone?
And, by gum, you'll fight the death-cultists to the last drop of somebody else's blood!It is not hard, really.
The fight is between two sides: one a western democracy, tolerant of all religions, and sexual preferences, where all citizens vote, live under rule of law, and can even bear arms on the same basis.............a place that does not even have capital punishment.
The other side are the followers of a medieval death cult. Absolutely intolerant of other religions, bound to offer them submission or death, or (if People of the Book) to live under the rule of Islam, paying the non-believers' tax...........
Seems pretty straight forward to me.
It is not hard, really.
The fight is between two sides: one a western democracy, tolerant of all religions, and sexual preferences, where all citizens vote, live under rule of law, and can even bear arms on the same basis.............a place that does not even have capital punishment.
The other side are the followers of a medieval death cult. Absolutely intolerant of other religions, bound to offer them submission or death, or (if People of the Book) to live under the rule of Islam, paying the non-believers' tax...........
Seems pretty straight forward to me.
Yep, that's Western democracy all right.A western democracy in the ME occupying stolen land and running a genocidal purge of the rightful inhabitants?
Yep, that's Western democracy all right.
I'm curious if anyone even bothered to read the "article". I know Walter didn't. This is from half way through the article:
The military said aircraft attacked 34 targets in Gaza, mostly belonging to Hamas, but did not link the strikes to the abductions. The military cited 18 Palestinian rockets launched against Israel from Gaza in the past two days.
But what the hell eh.... let's use the death of 3 kids to fan the fires.