For a decade you have kept your troops furnished by tunneling underground to get basic supplies like food and cement, and of course guns and crude missiles through the Israeli blockade. And now the moment to fight has come. You pick the fight by sending your ineffective, nearly toy missiles over to Israel knowing it will start a war. But, it is time, time to fight for freedom and time to get billions of other Muslims behind your cause. Israel falls for your bait and invades expecting to clean things up in a few days.
Yet, after 2 weeks, 700 Palestinians have been killed, about 140 Hamas soldiers and 560 civilians. Israel has lost about 35 soldiers, 3 by friendly fire. Three Israeli citizens have been killed.
And yet, Hamas fights on. One of their leaders said something to the effect that is better to die in battle than from the slow death of Israel's blockade that has been in effect for seven years.
Hamas seems like freedom fighters to me. Hemmed in, out gunned, out manned and still throwing its toy rockets at Israel saying "stop us if you can". Their rockets have less effect than Americans throwing tea into the Boston Harbor. The UN has said that Israel is committing humanitarian crimes in this conflict, but Israel of course says that's ridiculous since Hamas has no justification for firing rockets at it. I guess having Gaza under siege for seven years is not a good reason. From Wikipedia:
However a Fact-Finding Mission for the UN Human Rights Council chaired by a former judge of the International Criminal Court found that the blockade constituted collective punishment of the population of Gaza and was therefore unlawful.[26] UN envoy Desmond Tutu, United Nations Human Rights Council head Navi Pillay, the International Committee of the Red Cross and some experts on international law[27] consider the blockade illegal.[28][29][30][31][32]
But, what does the United Nations know about what's fair. They are obviously not listening close enough to Israel and the U.S. which assure us the blockade is hunky dory.
And here is the ultimate slap in the face. The U.S. asks for a cease fire. But, who do they ask? Israel and the PLO, which controls the West Bank, not Hamas that is the elected government of Gaza. Hamas are terrorists the U.S. and Israel claim. Guess what Kerry, the Hamas guys are the ones with the guns. Reminds me of how Britain called those Americans that dumped the tea in the harbor revolutionaries and passed the Coercive Acts (called Intolerable Acts in America) including the Boston Port Act:
The Boston Port Act the first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, closed the port of Boston until the East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea and until the king was satisfied that order had been restored. Colonists objected that the Port Act punished all of Boston rather than just the individuals who had destroyed the tea, and that they were being punished without having been given an opportunity to testify in their own defense.
The Palestinian response to the Blockade has been the same as the American Response was to the Boston Port Act.
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