I do - properly targeted attacks by land based forces - special forces - if they know where to bomb then they know where to where to send those special forces. Yes, they'll take casualties but better armed forces casualties than innocent civilians including babies and children.
Forgive me I wasn’t suggesting that none had ..but merely referring to last weekend and possibly the weekend before ..therefore leading to none in that city this coming weekend on their chosen day
That is certainly an approach but Hamas operatives hide in plain sight amongst the civilian population, plus their launchers are located in/on residential buildings. How many special forces teams would Israel need to send in to deal with many rocket launchers firing hundreds of rockets a day? If you look at three US special forces operations; they were successful in taking out Bin Laden but they were unsuccessful in Mogadishu and the attempted rescue of the Iranian hostages. Only one out of three was successful and each operation involved multiple helicopters.
Indirectly (even directly sometimes) - demonstration/public protest and vigils in Countries with parliamentary democracies are a useful litmus test for MPs to gauge public opinion for these issues and thus whether to hold the Government’s foreign policy to account either favourably or negatively - demonstrations in one Country can influence the outcome of a conflict in another (as well as its own) if popular opinion influences the decision as to whether or not a Prime Minister/President agrees to ‘boots on the ground’ for example in a war where the her/his Country’s interests are being threatened. Demonstrations bring the issues more directly into contact with the general public and provide a platform for promoting change which in itself can alleviate suffering when listeners eg donate to international aid groups and other NGOs with relief. Demonstrations attract media attention which in turn informs the electorate through in depth analysis and background reports. Public opinion matters to Politicians. An informed electorate can change the course of history.
Yes, ironically the old Thatcher belligerence of refusing to “negotiate with terrorists” saw some of the worst terrorism on British soil in the IRA’s 28 year campaign.
Get the UN to bang some heads together, stop the massacres, renegotiate just who owns what in the region and get the UN to manage it. The U.K. and UN got it wrong last time - they should have split the whole lot down the middle and recognised each as independent states.
Indeed to all of this. Also, another similarity with NI is that it involved two religious groups ( as well as the British ). One might argue that religion is one of the root causes for many a war ( slightly simplistic I know ) and if we had no religions the world would be a much safer place to live.
Offer a ceasefire, and meaningful discussions on a two state solution?
These demonstrations - Israeli or Palestinian - aren't 'informing' anybody about anything. Nor are they a litmus test of public opinion, just groups of people, pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian, expressing their hatred for the other side, and demonstrating their inability - or unwillingness - to realise that there is guilt, decades of it, on both sides.
Well you are talking about a selection of people, others just want to show solidarity for the innocent civilians of Israel and Palestine who are struggling in this conflict.
Confessions of an Economic hitman by John Perkins goes into all this in great detail.
Oh well that’s ok then to hear Jihad openly being advocated on the streets of UK. Nor do I want to see posters of missing kidnapped children being pulled down.FACT CHECK
You are incorrect to refer to the marches as ‘Jihad’ marches - Being ‘Palestinian’ doesn’t conflate with being a ‘Jihad’ - Jihadists are radicalised Islamic fundamentalists who use terror and violence to pursue an ideology (distinct from the Palestine cause for freedom and civil liberties) - the people marching in London are overwhelmingly non-supportive of violence and consist of a wide ethnic diversity of protestors - edit look at these images for example
And the chant is ‘from the river to the sea’ - not ‘from the river to see’
London’s ‘March For Palestine’ draws 100,000 demanding Gaza ceasefire
Pro-Palestine supporters march again in London calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and the safe delivery of aidwww.aljazeera.com
Uninformed opinions fail at the first hurdle in the race to impress.
I don’t want to live in the Middle East or anywhere else.
That’s the point, we don’t live in the Middle East or Gaza.
a million protesting about Iraq war did not influence Blair
A million protesting about nuclear weapons did not influence Thatcher (I went on that march and learned first hand about how amazing it feels to go on a massive march of solidarity, and how pointless it all is when the other 60 odd million members of society and the government simply ignore it).
