Israel invades Gaza

There was a particularly poignant piece on Al-Jazeera earlier where a Norweigan doctor working in Gaza was on the phone talking about the situation. There's been no power for a fortnight now, 33 ambulance crewmen have been killed trying to help people, the Israelis seem to be just indiscriminately dropping bombs on civilians and he reckons they've barely hurt Hamas at all.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by lordjames

Your cartoon is fucked. Think about it, if you’re entrusted to defend your country, and you see the enemy launching rockets dangerously close to civilian areas, which are killing your own people, what are you going to do? Are you just going to sit by and let it happen?
Furthermore, are you really going to have any sympathy for someone who knowingly congregates near a place where rockets are being launched into Israel? You know it’s going to be a target, so why are you staying there? It’s not that hard to hear rockets being launched from your backyard. Get the fuck out if you’re too chicken shit to throw them off your land.

Are you suggesting that when the IRA were perpetuating a bombing campaign against train stations and shopping centres in mainland Britain, the best course of action for the UK government would have been to indiscriminately blow the shit out of south Belfast? Maybe send the tanks into Dublin because a lot of IRA members lived there too you know? Quite a lot of the IRA's funding came from New York you know, maybe we should have started blowing up Manhattan? We all know how popular a move that turned out not to be...

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There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by lordjames

Maybe my history’s a bit off, but I’m pretty sure Britain conducted military operations against the IRA.

Well, they put up checkpoints to search cars for bombs and guns and they assisted the police in arresting suspects when need be but they managed to avoid using bombs or tanks throughout. Yes, it was a long conflict and yes there were some civilian casualties but Israel has killed more civilians since invading Gaza than the entire IRA/loyalist war did in it's duration. The way to stop people killing civilians is not to kill more civilians.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.