Discussion: Terrorism, Israel, Hamas, etc

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Slimebeast said:
The Israeli ambassador in Sweden Benny Dagan was interviewed on Swedish TV last nite.

He said that Israel believes the Palestinian death toll is overexaggerated.

Almost 10,000 rockets have been fired from Gaza in the past 6-7 years without Israel doing practically nuffin. Over 1 million Israelis live within firing range of those rockets. It's just that Israel are good at protecting their citizens, so loss of many civlians have been avoided by alarm systems, bomb shelters and kids trained to avoid open air as much as possible.

But enuff is enuff. Those 100 rockets fired in the two weeks immediately after the end of the cease fire agreement, well this time it had consequences. After the Israeli forces' humiliating exit from Southern Lebanon in 2006 the surrounding region lost a lot of respect towards Israel. That respect had to be reclaim. Israel just had to teach it's enemies a lesson.

IMO the Palestinians should be happy that Israel doesn't invade Gaza and simply occupy it again permanently.

Wow... I'm at a loss of words.... It's easy for you to just stay there and type that. I'm betting anything that you'd be singing a whole different tune if you were typing that out of Gaza right now....

But following your logic, Israel should be happy Pakistan doesn't just nuke the entire country to hell until it's all one flat radioactive smudge on the map.