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Ok, it's obvious Kamiya has an agenda. He did a lot of homework and still comes up with nothing new.
Those nasty Israelis and those complicit Americans blah blah blah...
Oh, but he does indeed poke a pinhole in the fabric of the real story and admit that Hamas does indeed "employ terrorism". Oh goodie, how balanced of him!
The bottom line is that Gaza is not Beirut and there is no similarity other than there's a war going on. Hamas is the government in Gaza, and its policies are clear: no to peace and yes to attacks on civilians. Hamas says it themselves in their charter: "There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad."
This is barely in the same universe as the Lebanon war, and Kamiya's attempt to equate the two are simply non-starters. There's no 3rd party who wants to come in and settle scores with anybody in Gaza. This is strictly a 1 on 1 affair, with Hamas doing a great job of making martyrs - why not? It's their openly stated objective.
And as for the posters all bleating and blathering about "war crimes", well, Amnesty International did a great job of analyzing the situation and they came up with this conclusion. Link included so you can ascertain its veracity:
"The attacks against civilians by Palestinian armed groups are widespread, systematic and in pursuit of an explicit policy to attack civilians. They therefore constitute crimes against humanity under international law. They may also constitute war crimes"
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE02/003/2002
Bottom line is that this is exactly the war Hamas has been clamoring for, yet nobody, Kamiya included, bothered writing about the Hamas angle before.
It's simply too politically incorrect to go questioning the Pals about their criminal activities - it's a real conversation stopper at left-wing cocktail parties and you get shown the door.
