Sudatenland, i wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment, there is no need to worry about collateral damage with those in Gaza. They chose their leaders freely. This cannot be denied. While i don’t advocated the killing of civilians, it is not like they aren’t complicit. They are the “enemy” and should be treated as such.
We have gone on in this utopian way of thinking in the latter part of the 20th century and the beginning of this century, pretending that wars don’t kill people. They do. When you battle another state, their citizens are the enemy. Until Israel and the US act accordingly, the radical muslim majority will continue to fester and threaten civilization. Its not a racial thing, early on in their history they were a thriving civilization. Our mathematical systems and a suprisingly large part of our culture was affected by Persia and Arabia. Islam shares the Judeo/Christian values in most of its teachings, but the parts inserted by Muhammad (a murdering pedophile) are a beckon and call to the disaffected to rape, torture, mutilate and murder whom they choose with the excuse of infidel to justify their blood lust. I am neither Jew nor Christian, so my argument is not with their beliefs, its with their actions which are flagrantly INHUMAN.
The Palestenians have no justification for their actions of lobbing missiles into a another country. There is no occupation. There is no oppression. Hamas and its likes are nothing more than rabid dogs that have been trained to kill their entire lives. They are a blight on humanity, and a danger to civil governance throughout the world. Much like having a rabid dog roam the streets of your neighborhood.
If you elect terrorists to lead your country, you get no sympathy from this rank. Israel needs not provide quarter for any soul in Gaza. Release the bombs and get this over with post haste. The slow bleed of negotiating with rabid dogs is a drain on civilized logic.
“...there is no need to worry about collateral damage with those in Gaza. They chose their leaders freely....it is not like they aren’t complicit. They are the “enemy” and should be treated as such.”
Interesting. This is exactly the same logic that al-Queda uses to justify their attacks on western civilians. Like you, they believe that we are all combatants because we elect our leaders.
By your justification then, our enemies are free to attack your family or mine because you vote. To reverse it, you have no justification to ever cause injury to civilians in a dictatorship since they have no choice over who leads them.