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Gaza: Child murders unjustifiable
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
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Clearly any sense of rational, objective judgment by Gail Walker on the Middle East crisis (Belfast Telegraph, January 6) has been blinkered by her misguided support for the US’s dangerous and cavalier foreign policy objectives in their so-called ‘war on terror’.
In the wake of the news emerging from Gaza that dozens of civilians, many of them children, have been killed by Israeli rockets right beside a UN school, is Gail Walker prepared to retract her comments about the Israeli government being ‘right’ to pursue this kind of action?
Yes, Hamas are also culpable,
but what can justify the murder of children?
Two wrongs don’t make a right, Ms Walker, and in this case the Israeli government is definitely not ‘right’!
F McGUCKIN
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According to The Times, 45% of Gaza's population are children under the age of 14. Therefore, when Hamas brought a war upon Gaza, it was inevitable and unavoidable that children would be among the casualties. Hamas were well aware of this during their 8-year-long provocation of Israel (via thousands of rocket attacks), and were even encouraging it by taking the war specifically into the schools/playgrounds/etc.
For 8 years, Israel has tried to stop Hamas without the use of a full-scale war. Those attempts failed.
Will anyone criticising Israel's actions please tell me how you would stop the rocket attacks if you were Israel's prime minister, without using the words, "Well, I wouldn't do this, or this, or that".....what WOULD you do?? (this is the most basic question which no detractor of Israel that I have heard has had the guts to even attempt to answer)
The killing of children is a truly horrible thing, but only one side glories in it (here's a clue: NOT Israel)
Posted by Robert Clayton | 22.01.09, 17:36 GMT
Certainly right , i'm Arabic , and i support these people who want the peace in middle east.
There is no compersion between Hamas Rockets and Israilis F-16 or Phosphorous incendiary bombs.
Please Think about it in the name of peace.
Posted by Abdulaziz | 18.01.09, 16:18 GMT
Where exactly is the analogy with Omagh when half a million Israelis live within 15 seconds of a bomb shelter. Was this how the people of Tyrone were living?
Parent, would you be happy for your child to live in these conditions?
During the recent truce, Hamas boasted their missiles were getting more deadly and longer in range. Then there are Hezbollah missiles from the north. Perhaps Israel had to wait for the whole country to come under attack before it acted
The only ones glorying in the carnage is Hamas: "you worship life, we worship death"
Posted by Av | 15.01.09, 07:38 GMT
The rockets fired by Hamas killed an average of 4 Israelis per year and most of us condemned those murders.
When Republican terrorists planted a bomb in Omagh and ‘accidentally’ killed 29 people we called it murder – and rightly so.
What then should we call it when Israel fires high explosive shells into an area as heavily populated as Belfast and kills 280 children in 3 weeks (920 adults). Israel is committing the equivalent of an Omagh atrocity every day in Gaza
Well done for highlighting this F McGuckin
Posted by Parent | 13.01.09, 20:04 GMT