I like how people think firing Qassam rockets is equal to an invasion and embargo
Nobody says those two are equal, nobody expects war to be handled equally for ****'s sake.
Nevertheless, if Mexico's government had begun launching over one hundred rockets per day on American cities for 8 years, it would sure as hell justify an invasion of American forces into Mexico.
And we're speaking about a sovereign nation here(Mexico), when the nation is not sovereign (Gaza Strip), the justification for an invasion is completely undeniable and unchallenged.
that systematically destroys Gaza's infrastructure and kills thousands.
Thousands?
Again, demonization at its best, as far as I know even the most biased sources you could find on the internet would not stretch it over 1,500 casualties.
You've just beaten their high score, congratz.
Besides, only 250 civis died, I don't see a need to count terrorists' life, I care only for the innocents.
Qassam rockets are useless and their kill ratio is pathetic.
One of the more-ignorant arguments one could present when judging the severity of launching rockets at civilians while they sleep at nights.
I'm sure you know how advanced Israel's security from rockets is, and you know that Israel has many shelters spread among the cities that lie in the range of the rockets and has an alarm system that goes on 40 seconds before the rocket hits and warns the civilians.
Of course the kill ratio would be 'low', it doesn't change the fact that over 800,000 people need to stop whatever their doing and run for their life.
If 80 rockets were launched at your place from a very close area, you'll not be aware they're coming and chances are you'll have a bunch of nails going through your head, or anything else that the terrorist chose to fill the rockets with this time, to maximize the damage done to civilians.
It is really a shame how people allow themselves to criticize other people and tell them not to be afraid from "some harmless rockets", when they'll probably be running for their lives screaming like a bunch of little girls if they were in this situation.
Simply moving the Israeli's in Sderot and the surrounding areas back would solve that problem and move them out of range.
This statement is equal to Marie Antoinette's statement, "If they have no bread, let them eat cake", you are trying to suggest a solution to the problem that is so ridiculous and bizarre, making your ignorance of the subject unavoidable to those who know where Sderot is, what's the range of those rockets, that Sderot is not the only city/town in the range of the rockets (Sderot has only a few tens of thousands people in it, in total, over 800,000 people are in the rocket's range), and above all, what the effect of surrendering to terror and moving your own people out of your own land means.
In your case, silence was worth gold, and you've let it go away by saying this sentence.
Israel bombed numerous buildings with nothing but suspicion to guide them. Or hearsay. You don't bomb a civilian building without being at least FAIRLY certain there's rockets or militants inside.
You seem to imply you are so resourceful that you can easily tell why Israel has bombed every place that it bombed and what its level of suspicion was.
Unlike you, I do have the resources to know that Israel has only bombed areas where one of the followings had occurred:
1) Building/area was used for terror strikes against Israel (rocket launchers, launcher pods)
2) Armed terrorists in the place.
3) Building/area used to store/create ammunition and weapons for the terrorists.
4) Hamas owned buildings/areas.
5) Hamas controlled buildings/areas.
During those strikes Israel has done its best to avoid civilian casualties by dropping leaflets, phoning the homes in the area of the attack and telling them to clear the area, etc.
Even then I can't accept that with the level of Israeli military training and the intelligence of their weaponry that they 'accidentally' killed all those people.
It's quite logical, you said it yourself, the Strip is a densely populated area, with over 1.5 million people in such a small piece of land.
The US and Britain weren't that bad in Afghanistan and Iraq and they were under a lot more pressure.
They were worse, you just don't hear about it from human rights groups and others.
The number of civilians that died in Iraq and A-stan as a result of British and American attacks is not even matchable with the number of civilians that died in the Gaza strip.
America and Britain also unfortunately do not take the same level of civilian alerting Israel takes, but I do not blame them, Israel would act just like them if it was not under a constant media attack.
