Sunday, March 02, 2008

Canadian troops give up weapons and body armour in Afghanistan so they can fight the Taliban "fairly and porportionately"

Hamas sponsors and deliberately launches rocket attacks against Israeli civilian targets. The IDF launch counterattacks at Palestinian militants in the act of firing rockets, metal shops where kassams are made, Hamas leadership locations, and limited raids aimed at capturing terrorists or arsenals within the Gaza Strip. In the course of these operations some civilians are injured or killed; the IDF and the Israeli government often apologizes. When Hamas or its allies wound or kill Israelis civilians, Palestinians take to the streets to celebrate and hand out candy - every single time.

The Israeli strikes and incursions would end in a heart beat - if Hamas stops launching rocket attacks against Israeli civilians inside Israel proper.

The Europeans condemns the Israelis for the ‘disproportionate use of force’ presumably because IDF operates at greater level of skill/efficiency and sticks to military type targets. Apparently, this is perceived as an unfair advantage. So, what is the solution? Do we let the civilians of Sderot manufacture and shoot their own missiles back at Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip? Would that still be considered a fair and proportionate use of force? What happens if the Israeli civilians build better rockets than their Palestinian counterparts? Would that still be fair? Israeli is a small country with approximately 7 million – honestly, how many potential rocket scientists or manufacturing Czars can they actually produce?

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