TJRocket Wrote:I just don't think it is ever justifiable to kill women and children, no matter how hostile they may appear.
Ihave had the pleasure of training women as an NCO when I was in the military. I can tell you, if I'm on the other end of their weapon and being fired upon, I am firing back. They are JUST as dangerous. That chivalrous BS will get people killed, no matter HOW you look at it. Don't get me wrong, I am NOT the type to hurt women or children, but when they are engaging me with hostility, I will use whatever means necessary to extinguish the threat. That's life. There has already been a female homicide bomber.
Also, tit for tat? As I said in another thread, Israel was bending over backwards, dismantling settlements, arresting it's OWN citizens that refused to leave, handing cities back, etc., and they got bombed for it. 13 children were either hurt or killed TJ. Aren't they innocent? Or is it just the Palestinians that are innocent?
Another question, do you think Hamas would have stopped if Israel DIDN'T retaliate? If so, history is your enemy.
Israel tried. It didn't work. Next course of action. Expulsion of all Palestinians from Israel and all occupied land given back to the Palestinians. They want to work? They want hospitals? They want education? Well, they better get started. Those services previously offered by the "Free" people in the area, the Israelis, are no longer to their avail.