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Originally Posted by bmulls
In response Israel assassinated the military leader of Hamas. Hamas has now declared "open war" on Israel and stepped up the violence.
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Sorry no. Israel launched airstrikes in gaza city, killing a military leader of the Hamas amoung more people and in retaliation Palestinians launched rockets at Israel.
I just find it funny the notion that the islam people just want to kill everyone, it's not just retaliation, if so why is terrorism a recent thing? Why no terrorism in the 50's? in the 60's? In the 30's? etc?
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Robert Pape, has argued that at least terrorists utilizing suicide attacks — a particularly effective[8] form of terrorist attack—are driven not by Islamism but by "a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
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Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer argues that terrorist attacks (specifically al-Qaeda attacks on America) are not motivated by a religiously inspired hatred of American culture or religion, but by the belief that U.S. foreign policy has oppressed, killed, or otherwise harmed Muslims in the Middle East,[11] condensed in the phrase "They hate us for what we do, not who we are."
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We are talking about a territory that was under Arab control for centuries and that was stolen for religious reason with the support of western Christian powers.
Basically Israel is a refugee camp that became a "country" and the people that lived there were persecuted and expelled.
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The United Nations estimated that more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled during the conflict from what would become Israel.[84]
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Let's not forget the invasion of Lebanon by Israel, and the election of dummie Christian leader backed by guess who, the US.
Israel was the beachhead for a behind the curtains crusade... but yeah 9\11 was not retaliation...
Re: Israel's Iron Dome in action
at steve once again showing a political agenda while posting under the insidehoops username
