big footed fred said:
Thanks dad but the point is a very general one that both sides are as bad as each other.
I've told you before not to call me dad. I disowned you, remember?
Israel targets Palestinians with no idea as to who they will kill and sometimes aims at kids for whatever reason.
The paleatinian terrorists murder without care for who they kill as it all has the same end.
You're making a fundamental mistake there IMHO, in that you're assuming that neither side is doing what they do for a reason.
In that part of the world the name of the game is "terror", whether that's state terror or non-state terror. One of the best ways to promote terror is to attack the weakest, show that no-one is safe.
That's why both sides of this disgusting conflict do it.
As for tangentlama suggesting that these were justified as they got aid from the US I wonder if he is fucking sane.
I don't know the ins and outs of the situation but I do know that people able to kill kids like this are not fit to live.
Were they funded by the US or on the run from the US ?
Gush Katif? Both.
Funded by American Jews in the US, occupied by American Jews who fled there from the US after they got so far on the wrong side of the law that a kindly blind eye couldn't be turned on their activities anymore. Even the state of Israel loathed them because they're a bunch of rabid racist dogs.
I wonder if anyone can justify the killings of kids from any side without resorting to bollocks about how they are funded by blah blah or moved there as an act of blah blah against blah blah. I would suggest that anyone who tries is just as guilty as those who do the killing - on both sides.
Depends entirely what you mean by "justify".
If you're a military strategist (whether you're Israeli, Palestinian or a Siberian dancing frog is immaterial) then if you can use a particular act to achieve your end then that is what you do. The British army in Kenya, Malaysia and many other independence-related struggles used acts which can be classified as "terrorism" (small-scale massacre, bombing, sniping etc) very effectively in pursuit of the destabilisation of the indigenous "freedom fighters".
Can somebody justify an individual killing or group of killings for what boil down to partisan reasons of group loyalty? Not if they've got an ounce of compassion or wit.
Can they justify deaths as a price for achieving a military or political objective? I'd say that people
have done so for thousands of years and aren't about to stop now, worst luck.