totalwar23 said:
SciFiBoy said:
totalwar23 said:
ttp://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/05/2482698.htm
UN retracts claim deadly Israeli strike hit Gaza school
Posted Thu Feb 5, 2009 7:22am AEDT
The United Nations has retracted a claim that an Israeli strike which killed more than 40 people in northern Gaza city of Jabaliya last month hit a school run by a UN agency.
"The humanitarian coordinator would like to clarify that the shelling, and all of the fatalities, took place outside rather than inside the school," the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in its latest weekly update on the situation in Gaza.
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ok, i stand corrected
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Look, even without the U.N. school shelling, you can criticize Israel for the rest of the civilian deaths they inflicted among the Palestinian cilivians, as well the crippling blockade over Gaza. Yet, at the same time, the International Criminal Court just indicted Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, the president of Sudan for war crimes against humanity for his actions over Darfur, where the Sudanese government killed somewhere around 400,000 people for not being Arab? (Correct me on that, I don't know the whole story)
And yet, Hamas and Iran, who called the Gaza operation a massacre, or atrocity, or a Holocaust, or somewhere that line, said they were going to defend this guy. Do we even care about Sudan? For Israel to launch a military operation that killed around 1500 people, maybe half were civilians depending on whatever sources you pick, I found the public reaction to be rather surprising and some were even calling it a genocide, which is laughable.
Yeah, some IDF soldiers probably did commit atrocities but so did Palestinian militants in their fight against Israel and so did American troops in Iraq. Go back to the Vietnam War, and you find plenty of atrocities commited by U.S. troops, NVA soldiers, South Vietnamese soldiers, the Vietcong and at the end of the war, you find somewhere around 5 million cilivians dead. Really bad, huh? The IDF didn't do anything near that. I do think Israel gets away with a lot of stuff but at the same time, they seemed to be criticize more harshly than anybody else. Perhaps those two things are related, I don't know.
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