tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post3634869440248758062..comments2023-12-11T06:11:11.449-05:00Comments on Bruce's MidEast Soundbites: No Pasta for GazaBrucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-50258376674382603352009-04-12T18:56:00.000-04:002009-04-12T18:56:00.000-04:00Thank you for your comments. You miss an obvious p...Thank you for your comments. <BR/><BR/>You miss an obvious point: Hamas purposely hides within a civilian population ['kill my people please'] and purposely trys to kill civilians; while Israel is protecting its civilian population and trying to minimize civilian causualties. If you didn't catch it, Israel called occupants of buildings it planned to target before hitting them. <BR/><BR/>Since Hamas has declared war on Israel, closing its border is a perfectly acceptable approach. Notice please, that Egypt has also closed their border...but you don't accuse Egypt of "starving" Gaza.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09331211089963297411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31461204.post-75659291733864632872009-04-11T23:10:00.000-04:002009-04-11T23:10:00.000-04:00Shalit is a soldier, Israel holds hundreds of Pale...Shalit is a soldier, Israel holds hundreds of Palestinian woman and children hostage, everything has to be understood in context. That doesn't make what Hamas has done right, but its missing the point, or perhaps making the point of a partisan, to look only at the crimes Hamas while Israel is starving the population of a territory it just massacred, deliberately killing hundreds of innocent people. Attacking a civilian population in an effort to achieve a political aim (the weakening of Hamas) is terrorism, and the scale of Israeli terrorism is far greater than anything the Palestinians have ever done.Progressive Pinheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14464725288335587328noreply@blogger.com