Re: Israel & Palestine
To HotShot:
“Who is Israel to tell them what to do?”
Um, if someone came at you with a 2,000 pound bomb and said get away from here because we are going to bomb it, wouldn’t you run away? I sure as hell would The only people that would remain as those that are loyal to the terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.
“Why would they trust the enemy?”
Israel was never at war with Lebanon, so following that logic the Lebanese civilians were not at war with Israel. BTW let’s put this from an Australian perspective. During 1942, the Japanese bombed Darwin. If they had told the residents of Darwin to leave because they are about to bomb it in less then an hour what do you think the residents of Darwin would do? The only logical thing, run! You would have to be stupid to stay. The only people who would stay would be military personnel committed to defending the city, make sense?
“..Where could they go?”
Israel left open a number of safe roads out of the country. Anything going along those roads would not be targeted, however vehicles traveling on any other road would be targeted regardless. Tell me another army that would do that, it’s astonishing the amount of precautions that Israel took to ensure a minimization of civilian casualties. Look at Hezbollah, they didn’t even care what they hit! The same goes for Hamas. Just yesterday they hit an Israeli school and I see none of you are going off at Hamas at that!
“Didnt you hear that all of them tried to leave the country or move up north and still Israel attacked them while they were moving bombing up ambulances... UN HQs.. wtf.”
I explained this earlier before. BTW the UN outpost that was hit (if you care to read up about it) was part of the earlier UNIFIL force designed to stop Hezbollah from rearming. Guess what, Hezbollah was launching rockets a few metres away from this outpost. Don’t you just love the moral authority of the UN? At this point in time Hezbollah is rearming and what is UNIFIL doing? Staying indoors and watching them do this when the purpose of UNIFIL was to assist the Lebanese take control of the southern part of Lebanon and take away the weapons of these terrorist groups.
To Maniella
“Awwwww israel is just so sweet to hand out pamphlets just a few hours before bombing.....THANKS FOR NOTHING!!!”
As always Maniella, you present you fair and balanced view on the subject and I thank you for that, not. Compare this action to other armies who just bomb the crap out of cities killing everyone. Compare this to the allied bombing of Dresden, the Nazi Bombing of London and Liverpool and many other cities in England. No warning and maximum civilians casualties. You still have not named another country that warns civilians of where it is going to bomb!
“Giving out pamphlets isnt realy such a humane action, i mean do you think that people would actually have time to collect all their possessions and belongings and just flee??....i dont think so.”
Of coarse not, this is war. These people should have been happy to escape with their lives, I would. What do you view this as, a police raid or something? War is war and property gets damaged or haven’t you ever learnt about what war is? That would explain your lack of intelligence.
“Secondly if they're soo nice and all, and if they're really fighting and aiming at the terrorists, they wouldnt be bombing a whole village or area. those villages they bomb, have many innocent civillians, babies, kids, old people, etc.”
Hence why they were told to leave! Or do you not get that? If these villages allow a terrorist organisation to flourish around them then they must except the consequences of what is going to happen. Now I am not saying that destroying whole villages is a good thing but if terrorists are using them to send rockets to Israel then appropriate action must take place, namely denying a launch pad for these terrorists to kill Israeli civilians.
