Yes, its a U.S. fighter plane dropping bombs on a civilian population. Of course, the real story is the U.S. supplies military aid to Israel to bomb their territory of Gaza because they might get lucky and kill some alleged terrorist firing missiles at their cities.
Its a feud that has been going on a long time. Freedom fighters in Palestine kill a few Israelis when their homemade rocks get through the American Made Iron Dome protecting Israel and then Israelis kill hundreds of civilians and a few freedom fighters. (Yep, freedom fighters is one point of view.) (What you are not being told about Gaza claims there is natural gas below Gaza that is motivating the takeover by Israel?)
The freedom fighters have been fighting for liberation of their country for 65 years. The United Nations has passed a resolution that Palestine should be a country, blocked by the U.S. of course, last year after 65 years of Israel's unwillingness to give Palestinians their own country and the right of self determination.
Nelson Mandela who lived through Apartheid sided with the Palestinians PLO and their fight for self determination. Many have compared Israel's plight to that of the blacks in South Africa under Apartheid. The video call the Truth of the Israel Palestine Conflict is a boring tape biased on the Jewish explanation of how this whole mess happened.
Well, it really doesn't matter. It is time to face the music, Israel is never, ever going to give land to the Palestinians and as long as "land for peace" is the central bargaining point, and the right of self-determination is never going to happen with this approach. This false promise that they are going to have their own country allows Israel to treat the Palestinians worse than the white regime in South Africa treated the blacks under Apartheid. Did South African whites ever systematically bomb regions of the country occupied by just blacks?
What does the current conflict accomplish. Well, first it kills quite a few Palestinians. I would guess that 90% of them are innocent civilians but we are not going to get that kind of data from either side. And, a very few Israelis are killed. Israel is much better armed for killing than Hamas and they have defensive capabilities (Iron Dome paid for by Americans indirectly). But here is the real question, is more hate generated against Israel or Hamas. I would guess it is proportional to the body count -- why won't it be.
Here is the sad truth. War has changed. The U.S. and Israel are still thinking a powerful military, that is designed to take territory and wreak havoc on buildings, etc. is the way to win a war. As the cartoon below depicts, Israel depicts it as a land war. Trouble is, one side is powerful (Israel) the other side is not. The analogy of a war just does not apply. (I wonder why we didn't bomb Boston after the terrorist attacks by two Muslims? We could have taken out the houses the younger one hid in. A little stupid, but not much more than using the military tactics associated with winning a war to apply to Hamas.)
To summarize: to treat this like an old fashioned land war, well it is stupid. And no, smart bombs don't solve the problem. Smart bombs and other targeted weapons are a reaction to the changing landscape of war, but they do not address the fallacy of thinking. The devastation of past wars, like that waged by Hitler and later by Russia and others against Hitler, was designed to break the will of the people and their ability to wage war. Israel and the U.S. pretends this is the purpose of the present attack on Hamas and the Palestinians. Unfortunately, that is just plain stupid. Do you think killing a few hundred, or a few thousand Palestinians is going to stop Hamas or the Palestinians. If someone bombed your country with smart bombs and killed members of your family, say your children, do you think you would give up. Remember, Hamas was elected by the Palestinians. We are kidding ourselves in thinking they do not have support of the Palestinians. Just recently, the PLO and Hamas signed a reconciliation agreement further testifying in the growing unity of the Palestinians. And, thanks to Israel, the Palestinians are dirt poor, no pun intended; the only way to stop them from fighting the primitive war with toy rockets is to kill everyone of them since the hostile ones multiply with each Israeli bombing.
So, what should be the plan? Step one is the realize the present plan and strategy borders on stupidity. Step two I will address if anyone agrees on the above, otherwise I will just save my breath.
Ask yourself the question, if terrorists launched missiles at the U.S. from Puerto Rico what would be the correct response?
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