Posted on 01/05/2009 4:11:42 AM PST by IrishMike
If the Israeli Defense Forces are targeting civilians, they are doing one hell of a lousy job.
Israel, lone democracy in the Middle East and true ally to the United States, has been taking a lot of hits lately, and not just rockets. Much of the world has been quick to condemn the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza. They have distorted what is happening, ignoring HAMAS missiles fired at Israeli citizens in population centers, yet labeling Israeli attacks on Gaza as massacres, war crimes, and a blatant murder of civilians. The truth is, while Israel wages war on HAMAS, it is doing its best not to harm civilians. A little common sense demonstrates this.
For those who like to keep score, after five days of fighting, numerous news agencies put the January 1st Gaza death toll at 400 (neglecting to say 75% of these are militants). According to a recent AP report, Israeli jet fighters have flown 500 bombing missions, and Israel has launched hundreds of combat sorties by helicopter gunships and surveillance aircraft. All told, Israel has sent at least 1,000 powerful bombs into Gaza.
According to the above math, it took 1,000 Israeli bombs to kill 400 Palestinians during a five-day period, a rate of two-and-a-half bombs dropped per fatality. Gaza, we know, is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. We also know Israeli bombs are powerful, lethal, accurate, and capable of leveling an entire structure. Given the math, it is safe to say, if the Israeli Defense Forces are targeting civilians, they are doing one hell of a lousy job.
What does Sharia Law say wrt targeting civilians?
ABC News Radio is reporting casualties are “mostly civilian”.
Keep up the good work Israel. You are way over due for what is happening.
Simply put it’s amazing how people allow others to think for them. All the stats quoted in the article come from MSM sources. Should anyone read the MSM newspapers, listen to the MSM radio, watch the MSM television those stats exist daily.
I s’pose one need to have reason to distrust the media to push in the clutch and throw the ol’ thinker into gear. All too many run automatics on cruise control anymore.
19 suicide bombers murdered over 3,000 civilians in just one 8 hour period on September 11, 2001. That is a example of the targeting of civilians.
What Israel is doing is something the average American does not have the slightest concept of; defending themselves against great evil. We leave that to others like the police, firefighters, soldiers, etc..
The average Israeli has to take care of there own self defense. The average American lets someone else handle it and then accuses them of either police brutality or committing atrocities.
We are not the ones who built and defended this country. The Israelis are the closest thing to the kind of people the United States citizens used to be when we took our own defense of life and our culture seriously.
The article stated: “Much of the world has been quick to condemn the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza”
Much of the world is made up of left wing fascists who want Israel and the United States of be defeated and thrown under the bus. So I could care less what much of the world says they are just like Hitler and Stalin but then that is the way of the left.
The MSM has only lies and no shame!!
Free Republic has the truth with integrity. I will settle for nothing less!
The Left proclaims that Hamas is NOT to blame for the 5,000 missiles launches from Gaza into Israel.
Why didn’t they put a stop to it if they did not approve?
You can sure expect the US government to STOP “The Minutemen” (for example) if they went to the border and started launching missiles at Juarez Mexico.
And you can fully expect that Mexico would return fire at the US.
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