The Israel/Palestine Conflict Mk. IV

Palestine. Don't get me wrong, Hamas need to realise they cannot win.

But, at the same time, Israel are killing civilians. IF IT WERE ANY OTHER COUNTRY, IT WOULD BE CONDEMMED BY THE USA AND THE UN WOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING!

Like I said in a previous post, Israel and Gaza HATE each other. They want to kill each other, Israel with the backing of western nations can kill as it pleases and nothing will happen. This is 2014.

Also, Israel say they warn before they strike. Partly true (although a BBC clip showed they don't always), but with all this technology, they knew those four children were on the beach and killed them purposely.

Dont be fooled by propaganda. nobody wants to be a human shield...and Gaza is so densely populated there will always be civilians killed. You can imagine someone sitting there thinking "how can we get the blame off ourselves, oh I know let's tell the world the enemy tells civilians to become human shields" it's a stupid excuse, let's do a objective test,would you as a reasonable man be a human shield during a war? Exactly, then what makes you think a innocent Palestinians would.

You know what Israel could do? Stop bombing them! That normally helps. Remember it started with a blame game, the blame of the murder of 3 innocent people. Hamas said they did not do it, it makes no sense for them to do it and before we could blink the rockets started landing in Gaza. As Israel said "they will pay" I guess Palestinians are paying?

Dont think I'm supporting Hamas here they are equally wrong in launching rockets. But without Israel first launching rockets this escalation would never have happened. Could have called it evens when they shoved petrol down a Palestinians throat and burned him to death.

Mass protest being held in London and across the UK on Saturday 19th July:

http://stopwar.org.uk/events/national-gaza-demonstration-saturday-19-july-stop-the-killing-stop-the-bombing#.U8VVxrHZcYL

I encourage you all to partake in it, whichever side you seem to agree with more, the current onslaught is not helping and awareness needs to be raised on the effect it is currently having upon civilians on both sides whether mentally and/or physically.

lot of ignorant blurted out comments on this thread, i suppose from the ignorant youth of today who dont even know the background to these conflicts. israel dont 'hate da gaza!!' - israel used to occupy gaza and the border areas with egypt fully till their withdrawl in 2005. the problem that is now is as they always claimed is that their withdrawl would allow islamist groups to take residence and plot attacks ( we all knew this would happen. ) in reality israel would not get too far on jsut air strikes alone to reduce hamas rocket fire- they would have to follow up with ground invasion ie re- occupation with ground forces.

It's extraordinary tbh, the amount of people who believe the Israeli propaganda machine when their justifications make very little sense. Yes collateral damage happens in war, but when 77% of total casualties are civilians (of which the majority is women and children), there is something fundamentally wrong.

Updates from twitter are now saying Israel are using white poisonous gas on Rafah civilians.

Erm no... Israelis hate Palestinians. Palestinians hate Israelis. There's no two ways about it.

We can all sit here and discuss, but at the end of the da, we have a roof over our head that won't be bombed down tonight. The most dangerous thing that will happen tonight is the rain. Until America do something, or the UN do something, Israel will not stop.

Mass protest being held in London and across the UK on Saturday 19th July:

http://stopwar.org.uk/events/national-gaza-demonstration-saturday-19-july-stop-the-killing-stop-the-bombing#.U8VVxrHZcYL

I encourage you all to partake in it, whichever side you seem to agree with more, the current onslaught is not helping and awareness needs to be raised on the effect it is currently having upon civilians on both sides whether mentally and/or physically.

why ???

Why not just bomb the terrorists from above ?

no need for a ground invasion

doesn't make military sense

I support peace. I believe the Palestinian to Israeli death ratio since 2000 is something like 5:1. Israel has been using excessive force over the last 14 years, but the various militant groups in Palestine need to realise Israel is obviously going to defend itself when being threatened.

i see propaganda on both sides tbh, the most remarkable is tho when terrorist group can chant some islamic passages form the quran and the entire muslim population can ignore the fact that hamas hide amoungst palestinian civilialns while they fire rockets at israeli cvilians - then complain when israel send warplanes in . shows how cleverly worded propaganda can instil idiocy

Hamas started the conflict and broke the cease fire twice, that Israel will not remove them from government means that they are not going far enough in my opinion.

Hamas started the conflict and broke the cease fire twice, that Israel will not remove them from government means that they are not going far enough in my opinion.

Hamas started the conflict and broke the cease fire twice, that Israel will not remove them from government means that they are not going far enough in my opinion.

lol Israel started it when it threw people out of their homes.

Good, Hamas aren't the good guys at all, so I don't know why people pretend only Israel is at fault in the region.