Flow said: @fishamaphone
Okay, then i think the ban got a point.
@Griffin
Yeah i know about palestinians attacking Israel. But these are terrorists fighting to destroy the country that menaces them, not that i condone their actions. Israel attacks palestine as a state, with it's own military, which is way more trained and armed than terrorists, i even saw news about Israel stealing from palestinian banks and never saw news of they giving it back. |
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm currently living in Israel, getting naturalized as an Israeli. I'm not trying to trick you or anything, so you deserve to have that kind of context before I start in with you.
Israel has antennae up trying to detect where missiles are being fired from. When they get a good idea of where one of these places is, they attack. Are they over-zealous sometimes? I don't know. But missiles *are* being fired from civilian areas, so if Israel wants to defend themselves, they don't have a choice.
Last month, I went to visit Sderot, a city in Israel, but close to the border with Gaza. They've been under constant rocket fire for 7 years. Our tour group was out on a little rise in the middle of a bunch of fields overlooking the border for about ten minutes before a mortar landed a few hundred yards away. Now, I can't be 100% certain, but our guess is that they deliberately targetted a tour group full of civillians. How can you ask Israel to *not* react to something like that?
In regards to stealing, Israel collects taxes for the Palestinian territories. It has done so for years, because there simply aren't facilities capable of doing so in the Palestinian government. When Hammas took over, Israel froze those assets. They didn't spend them, they just refused to give Hammas access to the money. It's still there, and when someone's in charge of Palestine that recognizes Israel's existence, they'll get every agura of it, but if it wasn't for Israel, Palestine wouldn't have that money anyway. They don't have the capability to collect it. Israel also supplies a lot of utilities for Palestine. According to the UN Human Development Index, Palestine is actually ranked higher than Egypt and Syria. If it wasn't for the assistance Israel provides, that wouldn't be true.