Israel kills top hamas leader with 2000 pound bomb

[The_vagabond7]

Comrade Tovya said:

SlorgNet said:
Israel isn't defending democracy. It's bombing another democracy.

The Israelis have been systematically starving, blockading and besieging the people of Gaza for years now, because they had the bad taste to vote in a free, fair, democratic election for Hamas in 2006. You don't have to like Hamas as a party, but they did win that election fair and square.

Israel needs to let the West Bank and Gaza go. End the occupation, let them have their nation-state. Want security guarantees? Get EU troops in there with a peacekeeping mandate.

 

Seriously...?

Hamas was voted in by the people, and Israel doesn't care about that.  They care that Hamas is using their political power to use Gaza a base of operations to fire rockets into Israel and murder Jews.  So it has nothing to do with the election and everything to do with attacking Israeli citizens.

As for the EU troops, Hamas doesn't want them there, and the EU will not put their troops there as a buffer against terrorist attacks.  If they did that, EU troops would come home in body bags because the Islamic terrorists would target them too.  Why would Europe turn tail and run from terror ravaged Iraq just to jump right back into a terror zone that is 10 times worse?

This. They aren't against Hamas as a democratically elected party, they are against having rockets targeted and fired at their civilians.