Excuse me padawon't, but Hamas is fully capable of protecting its citizenry.
"fully capable" is a fucking lie and you know it. They don't have the money to rebuild shit that's been destroyed in the conflict, they don't have running water, they don't have sanitation, they don't have enough food for everyone because of the blockade, they don't have shit to protect thier population with, everyone is trying to protect themselves the best they can, but I don't know if you've ever seen a 500lb bomb drop on a house before, there is litterally nothing left of the house after. And these tunnels you speak of, yeah, guess what, they also have bombs that are designed to penetrate tunnels then explode, killing everyone inside, so much for that idea.
When you fight in a cowardly way as hamas does....there will be casualties.
How would you expect Hamas to fight? Don't dodge this question. If you were the leader of Hamas, how would you fight?
Hamas has miles and miles of tunnels to hide civvies in, but they won't. Now THEY will use the tunnels, but not the regular civilian.
If I were a Palestinian civilian, I wouldn't feel safe using a tunnel. As I've already said, Israel uses air strikes against the tunnels, that's actually what started this conflict in the first place, and where would you expect them to go? Could you all of a sudden in your current situation just up and leave where you live and relocate somewhere else and live successfully? (not to mention your not in a warzone)
Before Israel retaliates they actually warn the Palestinians..... that's a bit different from Hamas firing rockets into CIVILIAN locations without warning.
The US government warned Japan before they dropped the nuclear bombs, but still 80,000 and 100,000 innocent civilians died. Nuff said.
Hamas uses disgusting tactics, I fully admit this and completely agree with you. I've already said this a half dozen times, I don't support Hamas or the tactics they use, but I understand WHY they use them. Please understand the difference. I don't know why you think because I think Israel is at fault in this conflict that automatically makes me support Hamas and everything Hamas does. That's some well thought out logic right there, clearly.
So let's just cut to the chase.
YOU THINK IT IS OKAY TO USE TERRORISM.
Says the guy advocating death and more endless war that we can't win. I've been advocating PEACE this entire thread, anyone can scroll back and read my posts and see that. Also the same guy who was praising the use of waterboarding a few pages back, whose the one supporting terrorism asshole?
YOU THINK IT IS OK TO TARGET NON COMBATANTS
lmfao, again scroll back and read through the thread to see I've been saying the biggest problem is that innocent civilians are killed that have nothing to do with the shit their corrupt government pulls. These kinds of comments makes me question your reading comprehension ability.
Take one look at the death toll on both sides, Palestinians and Israeli's, it's wierd huh, seems the Palestinians lost over 940 civilians while Israel lost 3. Whose targetting who, and who supports targetting non combatants, asshole?
YOU THINK IT IS NOT OKAY FOR ISRAEL TO RESPOND
I think Israel is using extreme excessive force, and committing war crimes, and killing civilians, and not solving shit, and making everything worse, and since they're the bigger power and they're the agressor, they have the ability to stop it whenever they want, and they choose not to.
IF THEY DO RESPOND IT MUST BE WITH ONLY EQUAL FORCE
The only point of using EXCESSIVE FORCE would be to kill civilians. Why else CrackerJax, answer that.
ISRAEL NEEDS TO VACATE THE COUNTRY
Israel needs to respect the rights of other countries, stop being a dick to everyone because they have the military power to destroy everyone who says anything, and mind it's own fuckin' business. (just like we do)
Yeah dude, you sure have, you've missed EVERYTHING it seems...
If you haven't figured out by now that HAMAS DESIRES a high body count on the part of the Palestinians......... you are not smart at all. One of the easily fooled crowd....but I'm guessing your prejudices are clouding your judgement....let go of the hate.
OK, let's take this further, there's a high body count, say thousands of innocent Palestinians died, now what? What does that get Hamas?
What prejudices? Who do I hate, and how did you come to this conclusion?
Israel has never attacked without provocation....the VERY VERY simple thing to do is stop attacking. In the same breath you will say that diplomacy was the answer to iraq, Iran, North Korea, not aggression.
I'll be back later with examples of Israel's UNPROVOKED agression, just for you buddy.
But HERE you make an exception....... you are a hypocrite of the highest order.
Hamas has the right to protect it's citizens, not only the right, the obligation, same as our government would if we were invaded, your lack of perception doesn't make me a hypocrite, it makes you an idiot.
I support peace and non violence, and standing up for what's right, if that means doing things people like you consider terrorism, fuck it, I'm a terrorist.
Again, point by point, howbout you take the time and actually try to refute this post point by point, let's see how well you do...