I get what you and Scott are saying, but what is Israel supposed to do? They are having a rather large number of missiles fired at them. Some of them to parts of Israel that no one thought they could reach. A ground force would be a huge escalation and the potential house to house combat could easily end up with as many civilians killed as air assault, though Hamas weapons might do more of the killing in that case. And there would be a great many more Israeli deaths.
I absolutely do not believe that the aerial assault is the right thing to do on the part of Israel. But I also don't see what other options they have at this point. They should have gone down a very different political route well before this round of escalation, but they didn't. I fault them for that. But at this point, they are being attacked and I don't see a way to respond that does not incur significant civilian casualties because the legitimate targets (the ones firing the missiles) are mixed into a dense civilian population. Short of a cease fire that both sides can agree to, this is just going to play out as a tragedy on both sides. Judah On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > ᧠> Yeah. > > After demolishing buildings, slaughtering entire families...they call a > cease fire. > > right. > > I stand by my view that it should never have happened in the first place. > Use of force on that scale,and with so many civilian casualties should > never be justified. > > On 15 July 2014 10:06, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So over night the Israelis took part in a cease fire organized by Egypt. > > > > Hamas chose not to take part and fired 50 additional missiles > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371537 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
