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zeitgeister-- this is not about anti-Israeli sentiments, it is about the monstrosity of war, of innocents being slaughtered.
That did it, it's obvious you hate Jews and want a Jew-free world. Just ask Xanthro or any of his pals and they will tell you.
-- ForgetItAlready
The problem is the monstrosity of war argument only raises its head when Jews are involved.
Within the last 3 days, Hamas has shot 70 Fatah members in the legs, and murdered others. This according to Hamas.
Not a peep of sound or protest, when someone deliberately targets and shots an unarmed Palestinian because the person shooting isn't Jewish.
When Jewish children are killed by rockets, which are designed to be indiscriminatory, there's a resounding silence about the death, but a chorus of, "the poor Arabs were forced to do this, big bad Jews control everything" it's sickening.
Gaza is a very populated place, Israel has been using attacks that limit civilian casualties, but according to people posting here, it might as well be a deliberate attempt to kill as many civilians as possible. I've seen rolling barrage, and genocide used.
Applying some special powers to Jews, such as the ability to magically prevent civilian deaths when attacking people firing rockets from civilian areas, is a form of Jew hating.
I'm saddened when a civilian in Gaza is killed, the same as I'm saddened when a civilian in Israel is killed. That's the difference here, many of the posters don't care about Jewish deaths, and really don't care about Islamic deaths either, except it can be used to fuel anti-Jewish rhetoric.
