- Apr 13, 2015
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PalestinianInteresting tweet from John Simpson on this, following on from pressure from Starmer and Shapps that the BBC should refer to Hamas as terrorists rather than militants.
On a related note, one thing that's notable is that politicians currently are very keen on trotting out that 'Israel has a right to defend itself' (it does, in my view) whereas the parallel statement that 'Palestine has a right to defend itself' never gets uttered. If you can unpack why this is the case, then you're basically at the heart of the issue.
My bolding.
Shame many of those air strikes have been "targeted" at refugee camps.
Dozens killed as Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza refugee camp – video report
Israel has intensified its bombardment of the Gaza Strip in retaliation to Hamas’s unprecedented cross-border incursionwww.theguardian.com
Totally agree that Israel should go after the Hamas terrorists but their carpet bombing of refugee camps and other civilian areas suggests that their motive is not to exact revenge on the terrorists but to punish the Palestinan people and take over the Gaza strip.
Just IMHO of course.
Bearing in mind that Hamas have always squirreled away their key storage and logistics units in amongst civilians, that collateral damage is something the IDF have always accepted as part of the price of destroying the terrorists.... I guess us in the west, our governments, are a bit more squeamish and apply l more moderation in targeting amongst civilians, though it cannot be avoided in every instance.