Israel's Actions in Gaza are an Act of Self Defense - Al-Jazeera

The terrorist group hamas will find only the usual terrorist apologist/supporter suspects to come to their defense at this point. May the IDF have continued success in its lawful actions of self-defense, as it continues to eradicate the hamas terrorists and their infrastructure!

GG has established a theory that anyone rob or forcibly occupy your land and if you claim it back you will be called Luinatic .

Yeah, yeah, just like the sinking of the USS Liberty was an act of self-defense and the bilking of American taxpayers to support Israel is an act of self-defense and on and on and on.  Israel justifies everything they do, legal or illegal, moral or immoral, as an act of self-defense.

To defend against rocket attacks, is the only Israeli military strategy to engage in collective punishment?

en.wikipedia. org /wiki/Collective_punishment

 Well considering if Pals gained control over all the land and Isreal they would start commiting genocide and Most of there defenders would say its ok  I dont see why Jews there should lie down and wait to be killed. If it where reversed they all women children old etc would be lined up and shot.

 Maybe they should do unto the pals as the Pals want to do unto them hows that for being fair.

Israel is not targeting civilians.  Hamas has hidden amongst the citizens so that Israel would not go after them.  6000 rocket hits later, Israel has to defend her country.  It is good to see that this person was allowed to be interviewed.  Every death of a civilian hangs on the Hamas head.  Without the Hamas activity, Israel would not have to defend herself.  A new prophet of Islam needs to come and lead the people out of the violent grip of the Hamas and other Islam extremists who have distorted and made a sick mockery of their faith.

Usually both Israel and Palenstine are partly responsible for any violent flare ups in the region but this recent turn is totally Hamas's fault. I feel very, very bad for the innocent people dying in both Palestine and Israel but if Hamas doesn't break that ceasefire there wouldn't be these pictures of little kids burned and killed. I don't recall any sort of discrimination used in the attacks on 9/11 or anyother major terrorist attack in the last 20 years. If Muslims want to be treated with fairness and respect it should be THEIR leaders talking to Hamas to convince them to work for peace.

The meek will inhairit the earth .what is the meaning of the word meek?

Why The Palestinians?

The Palestinian people have been imprisoned since the internationally questionable Israeli actions decades ago. An entire generation of Palestinians has grown up without a nation, without an identity, and without freedom (or some reasonable equivalent).

Why the Fighting?

With regards to the recent violence in Gaza, to accuse the imprisoned Palestinians of ’starting it all’ is blatantly unfair, because such a viewpoint can only be maintained if the generation-scale imprisonment is ignored. Although there are few parallels to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, any time and any place that millions of people are deprived of the right to govern themselves, the right to travel, the right to basic necessities, the rights to safety and the right to dignity, they will struggle. Dare to forcibly contain such a group of people inside a giant concrete fence against the ocean and they will resort to actions no one would normally consider defensible or appropriate. Thus the vicious cycle of violent resistance and violent retribution begins.

What To Do?

Until the root issue, the right to self-governance for the Palestinians, is addressed, this cycle of 'justified' violence will continue. Therefore, with regards to ‘who started it all’, the roles of captor and prisoner must be examined. This consideration can and will ultimately provide a safe, secure, peaceful situation for all peoples in the region.

Iran will fight Israel until the last palestinian..

You have to ask yourself what you would do in their situation.  Hamas doesn't talk about "secure, peaceful situations for all peoples in the region," it states that its goal is to destroy Israel (and, in their latest emission, to kill Jews all over the world).  When the borders are open, they smuggle in weapons, when they're closed, they complain because they're being oppressed.  They summarily execute anyone suspected of collaboration.  They're religious fanatics who are steadily clamping down on the rights of the secular Palestinians and every civilian death is a victory for them, as it polarizes people, a goal of any guerrilla group.

There are a lot of victims here, but the Israeli bombing is far from indiscriminate.  If it was, there would be tens of thousands of deaths right now, not several hundred.  No country in the world has to sit back and let themselves be harrassed, and no Arab country would put up with that either.

One last perspective: an equal number of Jews (about 800,000) fled or were booted out of Arab countries in 1948 as were Palestinians.  The difference is that the Jews were not kept in camps by their alleged supporters, but were integrated into the state of Israel.  The Gazans are victims of the Israelis, but are equally victims of the other Arab countries.

Hamas must be totally destroyed and the same with any terrorist organisation that fires rockets, mortars or maims innocent people and then is also supported by people that are willing to turn a blind eye to this Killing. Palestinians in Gaza support the Hamas regime and have done nothing to stop it Iran supports Hamas by supplying them with arms so as Syria, if the Hamas followers do not lay down their arms and supports peace with Israel then Gaza should be made a waste land this way it would stop the rockets once and for all. Israel should continue with the ground invasion of Gaza until Hamas is brought to its Knees and begs for Peace Muslims followers who support the attacks on Israel do so at your own peril because then I would totally support your destruction as well. One question that needs an answer is why the Australian Government gives sanctuary to Muslims when they are hell bent on Israels destruction when they support this view they should be removed from Australian soil before they tarnish Australia's Fair go attidude the religion of Muslims is total destruction of any race who does not support the islamic way of life and Australian Politicians are to blind to see it.

The reasen  we are having so many problems is that we let women have a say in polatics,and I dont mean females.

It seems to me, everyone forgets the fact that Hamas is purposely hiding with civilians for one reason only.  They want Israel to attack them with the civilans.  How can the Palestinian people think Hamas is for their well being?

Hamas wants its own population to be killed by the IDF just so that the media covers it.

They want the negative publicity for Israel from whenever Israel does anything (even if it is in self defence!)  What bothers me the most is, that fact always gets overlooked.

If even a fraction of these attacks happened on the United States (or any other country for that matter), from say Mexico or Canada (or their respective neighbours) and were being attacked on border towns, constantly, everyday, is the entire world going to say just sit tight and have some restraint?

Heck no, in fact they would all offer help in eradicating the terrorists from injuring its ally. 

To me, it seems, everyone wants an excuse to hate Israel even more, even if it is the exact opposite of what you would do if you were in their shoes.

It is very interesting to read this sort of interview in Al Jazeera, though not the first time I seen such a thing. 

I saw an interview (in Arabic) condemning violence on both sides, it was not a one-sided argument, and she said it was such conviction, it was really a beautiful thing to watch.

It really is a shame that no matter what, Israel does the wrong thing, and hardly anyone seems to care even if they aren't.

Israel is not giving into public pressure, good. Politics be damned, there is no good time to defend yourself against Islamic terrorism. It doesn't matter who wins the Israeli elections, they are going to vote for who they think will provide them security. If it is Livni, or Bebe, so be it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1579424/Israeli-earthquakes-are-gays%27-fault,-says-MP.html

these need to be contrasted with the actions of Hamas where every single rocket is designed to attack civilian populations

Glowing praise for Israel: not quite as bad as a terrorist organization.

"in the eyes of International Law" may be subliminal.

I suspect that this conflict is still a religious war. Somewhere in the Old Testament there is "an eye for an eye!" I guess we can call it what we want but in our depths we know what it really is. Most of these people do not have the New Testament.

Make peace not war.

Even if you target your action at military sites, civilians are inevitably going to get killed...these need to be contrasted with the actions of Hamas where every single rocket is designed to attack civilian populations, so every single act of Hamas in firing these rockets is clearly an illegal act without any legal justification.

He's quite right, every rocket attack has been targeting civilians.  Where the logic fails with me is that he keep goings back to contrasting one enemy versus another, and I'm not interested in doing that, I only want the conflict resolved.

When two children get into a fight, usually the worst thing a parent can do is to try and figure out who started it, and declare one child or the other right.  Your supposed to stop them from fighting in such a way that they don't fight again, not determine who was right.

Israel and Hamas, and the palestinians caught between the two who may not care for Hamas so much, are certainly not children unfortunately.  Not most anyway.  If they were it would be easier to stop this mess.

Everyone involved in this thinks what they do is justified, and I just don't care in the slightest.  This ugliness goes on for year after year, it never ends.

I completely agree with GG - Isreal must defend itself. by the way, there is no such thing as palastine- pick up a map - so the arabs intention is to kill israeli's and jews alike all over the world. lets imagine that they decided they arent fans of christians or catholics .. as if those groups are going to think, " ok lets not fight back just incase some people think its wrong to would the opponent" as if.  ISRAEL IS THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ITS ETHICAL WAR POLICY IS UNPARRALEL AND STANDS UNMATCHED AND PERHAPS THOSE 'ANTI-ISRAEL' SHOULD NOT BE SWAYED BY ARABIC PROPAGANDA

I appreciate that my earlier statements were not immediately atttacked; I wish to make it clear that I am not a supporter of violent acts, I am not a Hamas (or Fatah) supporter and I am not a fan of the Israeli actions pertaining to the decadal-scale treatment of the Palestinian people. A supporter of the human right to live freely without negatively impacting others, I hold my earlier statement to be true, in face of the reactions to my words from last week:

What To Do?

Until the root issue, the right to self-governance for the Palestinians, is addressed, this cycle of 'justified' violence will continue. Therefore, with regards to ‘who started it all’, the roles of captor and prisoner must be examined. This consideration can and will ultimately provide a safe, secure, peaceful situation for all peoples in the region.