Originally posted by: Slovin8
To fire a US MADE F-16 Missile into an apartment building, killing him, his wife, their 14-year old daughter, EIGHT Children (Yes EIGHT Children) from nearby houses which were LEVELED to the ground and few more civilians got buried.
As an israeli civilian,and as an israeli soldier in the IDF,i agree about this. this attack should have not,(as my personal opinion) have been carried out.
but then again,i do not have all the info which the govrement has regarding this situation...
You have to remember that this person has been responsaible for the creation of the hamas military wing in gaza,and as been responsible for preparing and orginzing dozens of attacks on israeli civilians and soldiers,and may have been in the process of orginzing yet another one...and it that case,as hard has it is to hear,i rhater take the chance of taking him out and preventing the next bombing,then waiting for the next one to happen and knowing that i could have stopped it.
until you are in the postion that you have to make such choise,i dont think you really have any right to criticize.
Now Israel bluntly takes this clear act of TERRORISM and then say OPPPPS, civilian deaths we're sorry for... as always.. as with the thousands upon thousands of Palestinians that have been killed before.
lies and exggerations... thousands of palestienes havent been killed in the current intifada... and the majority of those that have been killed have been armed militants.(not them all,unfourtently,as yes we have made mistakes in the past. but here is the core diffrence which many seem to ignore... the palestines desire to hurt as many civilans as possible,israel however does its best not to.(however this is war ,and unforutently mistakes do happen...,and after blowing up hundreds of israelis,they have absoultly no JUSTIFACTION WHATSOEVER to complain that israel does what it can to protect itself...
I would like to see what exectly woudl the french goverment ,for example, would do in case that people started blowing up in paris.
Are the Israelis nuts? They call it preventive measure!! Bullshit. They expected the Hamas Militiant to stay at his house ALONE at night? They expected the nearby houses to be empty? Why didn't they send in a task force, broke in, and arrested him? They're probably TOO COWARD to do that. An "American" F-16 will do the job.
oh i see you have a briiliant stratigic mind!!!
Send in a task force in the middle of the gaza strip to arrest a militant that is more likely to resist...
so please answer me those questions oh veteran general of old....
how would this strike force get to the middle of one of the world's largest and most densly populated(and hostile) cities in the world,grab an hostile(and well guarded) hamas militant,and then leave?
And how dare you!! how dare you call the young people of this country TOO COWARDS,to do anything,when day by day ,night by night, young people by the ages of 18-21 are defending this country and trying to make sure that some of the most sadistic creatures to live on this plant are not allowed to get into israel proper in order to prevent them from creating mass massacres... and have no doubt that they do try...
And btw... if you would have bothered to look into the facts,you would have seen that the majorty of operations against militants have been capture operations,as interrogating them has far greater piority then simply killing then.
No wonder the US is isolated and the whole world is against us and against Israel.
Yes i have noticed all the ambrgos that the usa has been getting lately...
And are you by any chance in addition of being a bright general are also an expert in forgien affairs?
Do you have any idea why is the USA investing so much money in israel? do you get the same information that the US president and the chief of staff are getting from israel? do you know what level of cooperation exiests between the US and israel and why does it exiest? do you know how much influence and control the US over israel?
Ehud
*Sigh