[rktman]

They’re dead Jim.

[ConservativeMind]

We have FReepers who fully support Hamas, stating Israel is crazed and the liar.

[wildcard_redneck]

Hamas is hiding in rat holes under civilians with munitions and stolen money.

Israel should blow holes in Egypt's Gaza fence and stampede the homicidal Gazan maniacs into Egypt. Let islamofascists deal with islamofascists.

[ConservativeMind]

Hamas killed the Hamas groupies.

[Wuli]

Hamas is in the business of creating martyrs. That is a Hamas tool for creating sympathy for its cause.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

So a bunch of people guarding an ammo dump died.
Bonus kills.

[Jim Noble]

This all seems like quibbling with an eye towards the media.

The two sides are engaged in a war which has been going on for 75 years. People get killed in wars. Civilians, especially, suffer.

The forces making civilians suffer (the IDF and Hamas, in this case) are engaging in empty rhetoric about what they did or didn’t do. They are pursuing political objectives using the tools of war. This is normal.

In 1945, Soviet soldiers raped maybe as many as a million women, some young enough to be called children. They nailed German boys and girls to barn doors. The US vaporized tens of thousands of women and children, and burned and disfigured hundreds of thousands of others, in Japan and in Germany.

THIS IS WAR. THIS IS WHY IT’S SO BAD, TO BE AVOIDED WHENEVER POSSIBLE.

Both sides here need to heed the advice of General Sherman, who wrote to the city fathers of Atlanta in 1864: “You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it...You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of [XYZ] can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride”.

[G Larry]

Islamic Terrorists have been hiding behind the skirts of women for over 50 years.

[SJackson]

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