>>>>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/01/israel.rockets/index.html
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>>>>>>>>I guess there is more behind this than a warlike spirit. I guess.
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>>>>>>>I wonder if the rockets were landing in WoodStock or Crystal Lake what our government's response would be and what the locals would expect?
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>>>>>>Maybe if you treated Mexico or Canada the way Israel treats the Gaza strip and Wet Bank you'd be getting the rockets. I find that sort of justification doesn't really hold up apart from as convenient sound bite.
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>>>>>I don't see what you mean by "israel treats the gaza strip"...Israel tries not to "treat" at all neither the gaza strip nor the west bank...
>>>>>What you don't hear in the news (particularly in Great Britain where the only reasons i see for what i see there is either a huge amount of pro-palestinians arabs or monumental disinformation ) is that those rockets are sent exactly when parents are taking the kids to schools. This morning, one rocket landed inside a big complex of 3 kindergardens, and by miracle, didn't explode...Then, they sent later in the afternoon, at a commercial center, exactly at the time people leave work and go there for shopping...
>>>>>What happened today is a fraction of what happened almost every day, for the last 8 years. So, in my view, there is no disproportionate reaction to that...There is no disproportionate reaction to terror, other than wiping it as much as possible...
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>>>>Well my view is that the plucky little Israel of 1967 was long ago replaced by the overweight regional superpower Israel of today. BTW those rockets are primitive and capable of little precise targetting unlike the laser guided weapons being dropped by the Israeli air force.
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>>>>yes the rockets are terrorism and should be stopped but Israels response is appalling.
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>>>This is what amazes me. I am all for a Palestinian state, but totally against indescriminate bombing. What would you have Israel do? Just lob dumb bombs indescriminantly into Gaza near schools and places when kids and families are coming and going? Just to keep it 'completely even?' That's ridiculous. Wars would last lifetimes as this one probably will.
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>>No thats not whaht I'm saying.
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>>I don't think the founders of Israel would be very proud of the way it behaves today. Israel has a clear choice how it uses very accurate weapons and it has chosen to inflict heavy civilian casualties to teach them a lesson. Probably the Hamas terrorists are largely untouched and will be back.
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>Let's see...
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>Hamas doesn't wear uniforms.
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>Hamas fights from civilian areas.
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>Hamas lights off rockets and mortars from their own congested civilian (I'll be nice and call them civilian - they really are terrorist supporters since they do not try to stop Hamas) areas and then blend in with the crowd.
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>Please let us know how Israel is supposed to specifically target the terrorists w/o hitting civilians as well.
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>The fact that israel is NOT trying to inflict heavy casualties is something for Israel to be proud of.
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>If Israel wanted to, they (just like the US or other major powers) could carpet bomb cities out of existence using cheap weapons rather than very expensive precision guided munitions.

Exatly William. Besides, everybody seems to forget how exactly the bombing was done:
- airplane captures video of hamas terrorists setting/fiering rockets from top of building
- israel sends plane that throws away messages warning the population to leave the building, which is going to be bombarded
- later on, israel gives a phone call to each and everyone of the people living there, asking them to leave the building
- the building is bombarded ( of course, the terrorists are already sipping a cocktail for ages already )

In some cases, people that wanted to leave the building were being kept there by force by hamas terrorists, so they can show up civilian casualties afterwards ( i guess in england that's the only part of the process you really see in the media ), while at the same time, *never* admitting any hamas casualties, just to say "look, they hit only civilians..."

I would really like to know who saw the video of hamas terrorists that wanted to cross a road, and were taking palestinian kids coming from school as shields while they were screaming and kicking...