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The pictures from Gaza that anti-Israel people don't want you to see... (Original Post) Archae Jul 2014 OP
Suddenly it all makes sense. I see now why Israel is building settlements in the West Bank LittleBlue Jul 2014 #1
Long term, those settlements can be multi-ethnic mixed neighborhoods. Loudly Jul 2014 #3
One of the pictures I saw is an editorial cartoon... Archae Jul 2014 #4
Hamas is not a country, despite the Israel and Hamas equivalency in the media, so what capacity Fred Sanders Jul 2014 #10
The settlements are illegal. Violet_Crumble Jul 2014 #7
The settlements are illegal but it was legal to bomb cafes on Saturday night PCIntern Jul 2014 #8
Huh? Who said suicide bombings were legal? Violet_Crumble Jul 2014 #9
It is called a strawman, do not take swings at a strawman. Fred Sanders Jul 2014 #11
They don't give a shit, they want the Jewish state dissolved, destroyed, or assimilated. TheKentuckian Jul 2014 #2
That google image search found this, too. Is this an accurate chronology? I'm not an expert. Electric Monk Jul 2014 #5
Hide that map, some one in the media might may see it......!!! And the public might know that there Fred Sanders Jul 2014 #12
Different from what? The images of those four dead children? Violet_Crumble Jul 2014 #6
Somehow, all that rocket porn seems less compelling Jackpine Radical Jul 2014 #13
I say, kill the rockets. defacto7 Jul 2014 #14
I wonder what Hamas hopes to accomplish by firing rockets. BlueCheese Jul 2014 #15
It's asymmetrical warfare. morningfog Jul 2014 #16
 

LittleBlue

(10,362 posts)
1. Suddenly it all makes sense. I see now why Israel is building settlements in the West Bank
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 08:07 PM
Jul 2014

Said no one ever.

 

Loudly

(2,436 posts)
3. Long term, those settlements can be multi-ethnic mixed neighborhoods.
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 08:14 PM
Jul 2014

All people need a place to live.

Does Hamas have a residential housing initiative? Other than collocation with launch sites?

Archae

(46,337 posts)
4. One of the pictures I saw is an editorial cartoon...
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 08:15 PM
Jul 2014

Hamas being too busy saving weapons to bother with the kids.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
10. Hamas is not a country, despite the Israel and Hamas equivalency in the media, so what capacity
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 09:00 PM
Jul 2014

would they have as essentially a poorly armed militia roaming in a prison surrounded by a heavily armed actually for real country?

Violet_Crumble

(35,961 posts)
7. The settlements are illegal.
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 08:28 PM
Jul 2014

If the settlers want to live in mixed neighbourhoods (which they don't), they can do it in Israel, not in territory that's not part of Israel...

PCIntern

(25,556 posts)
8. The settlements are illegal but it was legal to bomb cafes on Saturday night
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 08:52 PM
Jul 2014

before the Israelis had had enough.

Violet_Crumble

(35,961 posts)
9. Huh? Who said suicide bombings were legal?
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 08:56 PM
Jul 2014

I pointed out that the settlements were illegal. If you agree that they are, I'm not sure what yr trying to argue...

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
12. Hide that map, some one in the media might may see it......!!! And the public might know that there
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 09:04 PM
Jul 2014

can be fair debate without demonization, if only tribalism was not so strong.

Violet_Crumble

(35,961 posts)
6. Different from what? The images of those four dead children?
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 08:26 PM
Jul 2014

And who are the 'anti-Israel' people? Whoever they are, they're not doing a good job of not wanting people to see.

btw, here's another google image search for you. Want to explain how this is diferent than yrs?

https://www.google.com/search?q=palestinian+rockets&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ZgbLU9qmMYqryASYvoHABw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1366&bih=690#q=israeli+bombing&tbm=isch

BlueCheese

(2,522 posts)
15. I wonder what Hamas hopes to accomplish by firing rockets.
Sun Jul 20, 2014, 10:32 PM
Jul 2014

Irrespective of right or wrong, they have to know they'll never win a military conflict with Israel. What did they hope was going to happen?

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