Posted on 07/18/2014 12:32:55 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, said on Thursday he is certain that Hamas terrorists rejoiced in the deaths of four children killed on Wednesday in Gaza when the IDF targeted a “nearby shipping container used in the past by Hamas security forces,” according to a witness.
“I have no doubt that Hamas was celebrating when these children were killed,” he told CNBC’s John Harwood. “No one in Israel was celebrating when these children were killed.”
Confronted about charges that Israel is using “vastly, disproportionate force” in its war against Hamas, Dermer said the Jewish state does everything possible to avoid civilian casualties but that sometimes mistakes happen.
“We drop fliers, send text messages, make phone calls… And even though we’ll make the most surgical attacks possible, sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes there’s a mistake and we regret the loss of any civilian lives,” he said.
“Imagine you would have over 200 million Americans who would be in bomb shelters and they would have a 1,000 rockets fired at them from contiguous territory, from a terror organization. Do you think the American military or the American government would use less force than Israel is using now?” he added. “I don’t think anyone can seriously tell me that.”
(Excerpt) Read more at algemeiner.com ...
For those who URGE Israel to commit war crimes and kill all Palestinians ... I've got two words for you ... SHUT UP!
Here’s my SHUT UP! post.
A post I made on another thread about false supporters of Israel ... to some genocidal maniacal poster ...
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Anyone who is one of those “faux supporters” of a Israel who urges Israel to commit WAR CRIMES when Israel denies these false accusations should SHUT UP and go crawl back into that hole where they got those genocidal ideas!
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Israel ambassador to U.S. Jews: Hamas winning war of public opinion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3181017/posts
NEW YORK — Ambassador Ron Dermer, Israel’s chief diplomatic representative in the U.S., asked some 700 American Jews on a conference call this week for their help shifting the messaging on Israel. Israel is being routinely portrayed in both conventional and social media as an angry, well-armed giant leaving many innocent victims in its wake during the current crisis with Hamas, Dermer said.
The call was organized by the Jewish Federations of North America, which this week sent federation leaders to visit targeted towns in Israel, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Dermer told his audience that Hamas may be winning the war over public opinion, as Israel is vilified for the civilian casualties its bombs cause in Gaza, while Hamas is not being blamed for instructing Palestinians to stay in their homes – even when they have been warned by the IDF that the locations will be bombed imminently.
“Hamas is putting its missile batteries and command centers next to schools and hospitals. That is a major war crime. While we are doing everything possible to keep civilians out of harms way, Hamas is trying to put their people into harms way. Gaza’s interior minister said people should ignore warnings and go back into their homes. We are taking action to minimize to the greatest extent possible number of civilian casualties, they are doing everything to maximize it.”
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We need to make ABSOLUTELY CLEAR when we talk about and support Israel, that it is NOT engaging in a GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN against the Palestinian civilians - but that it’s HAMAS who is.
We must be STRONGLY EMPHATIC that Israel does NOT COMMIT WAR CRIMES against Palestinian civilians and explain the ways that Israel goes about avoiding collateral damage, while strongly attacking Hamas and its missiles that are flying into Israel.
If you believe that Israel should commit war crimes and engage in a GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN against Palestinians — then just SHUT UP! ... because you’re doing Israel no favor with your genocidal talk!
Ummm, that is the point.
Do these idiots want Israel to launch hundreds of unguided, inaccurate missiles at Hamas in Gaza? What kind of idiotic statement is that anyway? What country in Israel's position of being attacked would respond otherwise?
charges that Israel is using “vastly, disproportionate force” in it
What the hell is disproportionate force when dealing with murdering terrorists?
Dropping the bomb on Japan would seem to qualify but I doubt many people wanted WWII to continue for a few more years..
They're carpet bombing with F-15E's and F-16's?
Here’s a running account of news reports related to these recent events with Israel and Hamas. If you want to catch up on the news accounts ... they are here ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/stisraelhamas/index
It’s listed from newest to oldest, so go to the bottom to start.
Israel quite naturally is striking back with more force than was used against it, as is naturally the case when any entity responds to aggression and wants to defeat the enemy. The US in WWII had every intention to strike back with many times the force Japan used against us, so as to utterly defeat Japan. A "proportional response" allows the enemy to regroup and shortly strike again. That's what Israel is striving to prevent.
Such morons must think somehow that, if the two sides are morally equivalent, they must also be militarily equivalent. And in so doing, give away their desire to perpetuate the terrorist organizations.
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