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"Israel left Gaza 3 years ago and gave them approximately 6,800 chances (the number of rockets and mortars fired into Israel since) to kiss and make up."
Just like the Wehrmacht "left" the Warsaw ghetto and gave Jews "6 million" chances to get with the pogrom, er, program, too.
Israel moved settlers from Gaza to the West Bank.
It then sealed Gaza's borders.
It starved the Gazan population, killed commerce, uprooted trees, bombed power plants, "bravely" made raids dressed as Arabs to kill Hamas members during the truce, flew jets and drones to keep the Palestinians under surveillance and sleepless, etc. In short, Israel acted as humanely as Germans did to Warsaw Jews.
"Hamas shelled the very powerplant that Israel uses to deliver 65% of the electricity to Gaza"
Israel bombed the plant Palestinians had run themselves. It wanted to profit from the misery it caused. Like the soldier who robbed ghetto Jews, making them pay for German clothes.
"Hamas has murdered hundreds of their fellow Palestinians in back alley political violence"
Jews murdered their own kids at Masada...in broad daylight!
They also led each to concentration camps, then into gas chambers. They sold each other out for bread. And volunteered to drag out chamber dead to pull gold teeth. So who are Israelis to judge anyone? With the 4th most powerful army in the world and the mindless/endless support of the world's lone super power, they've chosen to be ugly and inhumane brutes.
So, what's new?
Freed from Egypt by Yaweh, they resorted to idolatry, and were forced to wander the desert for 40 years. Such are those who hold themselves up to the world as exemplars.
The danger Israel never considers is that the more horrifically it acts, the more likely it is people will wonder if Goebbels wasn't right. They will ask how a people spared Holocaust death could form a country that acted as evilly as German propagandist said they would.
Israelis claim to be more moral than others due to Jews' historical suffering. Then they get angry when the world holds them to the higher standard they claim to abide by while acting worse than Cossacks,
Germany was able to do what it did because it also controlled media. Today, Israel's actions are broadcast to the world despite Israel banning reporters. Moreover, the Internet allows Youtube access for those who might not see Al-Jazeera, etc.
Americans are tired of war. They will soon face an ever-more troubling economy. They aren't going to want to give money to a country that prefers war to peace. Look for China and Russia to help Syria and Iran and outmaneuver America. Then we'll see how tough Israel talks.
What happens if/when Russia sends a warship to deliver aid to Palestinians? What happens when China gives Hamas missiles, becoming heroes to millions of Muslim tired of being abused and humiliated? What happens when Israel gets boycotted and becomes one huge ghetto?
