Hamas stages 'Day of Wrath' (in other words, business as usual)

Maybe the two leaders can get together in front of a fire and hold hands, roast marshmallows and sing Kum-bay-yah. And then, and then they can invite Mickey Mouse over and they can have their own little happy parade..

dude wake up- the "butchery" you cry about was brought on by Hamas- go over there and give them your little "moral stance" speech. I'd bet ya you wouldn't make it back home.

Wow, too bad the militant muslim terrorists who flew their planes into the world towers and pentagon didn't call to warn of what was to come.

Oh those darned Israelis- how dare they do something so civilized- such an evil act of butchery to call and warn those civilians!

sparks wrote:

I'm going to start out my part of this discussion by stating that I believe murder is both wrong and immoral. Neither side has the right to launch rockets into the other side's territory which kill innocent victims. The only way this conflict will ever end is for the rest of the world to quit taking sides and stop doing business with both Israel and Palestine. Stop selling them the guns they need. Stop selling them the rockets that kill women and children. Stop donating money to organizations that support terrorism. Set up a war crimes tribunal that prosecutes the criminals who are willing to murder others because of their misguided religious beliefs. This is the only rational opinion
that can be taken.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5454204.ece

January 6, 2009

Hamas: Israel has legitimised the killing of its children

Fighting intensified on the northern outskirts of Gaza City yesterday as a Hamas leader warned that the Islamists would kill Jewish children anywhere in the world in revenge for Israel’s devastating assault.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101780.html

Moral Clarity in Gaza

Late Saturday, thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language cell-phone messages from the Israeli military, urging them to leave homes where militants might have stashed weapons.
-- Associated Press, Dec. 27
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating.
Israel is so scrupulous about civilian life that, risking the element of surprise, it contacts enemy noncombatants in advance to warn them of approaching danger. Hamas, which started this conflict with unrelenting rocket and mortar attacks on unarmed Israelis -- 6,464 launched from Gaza in the past three years -- deliberately places its weapons in and near the homes of its own people.


If you are still claiming moral equivalency between the two combatants after reading the above paragraphs, I'd be really interested in knowing why.