Slimebeast said:
The Israeli ambassador in Sweden, Benny Dagan, was interviewed on Swedish TV last nite (on a small private channel of course, National TV and the big channels are all pro-Palestinian and would never allow him to talk).
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.
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Exactly, you're a good man Slimebeast... I knew there had to be some good ones still left, and once again, you have shown me that my faith in mankind is not embraced in vain.
