07-22-2014, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Biggy
Hamas refuses to accept a ceasefire, and even at times when Israel stopped their attack due to UN requests, Hamas still fired rockets.
Some of it is black and white. One sides government is labelled a terrorist organization by the entire western world and targets civilians on purpose. The other side targets military objectives, that are located in civilian zones, schools, the un is investigating a weapons cache in one of their hospitals. If true that's pretty fucking horrible.
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Israel violated the most recent ceasefire and more:
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This past April, Israel stepped up its rhetoric against Hamas following the reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah. Then in June, Netanyahu publicly blamed Hamas for the kidnap-murder of three Israeli teenagers ? even though he provided no evidence to support his claims and Hamas repeatedly denied any responsibility. It is now known that Israeli politicians and military leaders knew full well that the teens had been murdered shortly after their abduction ? using the pretense of their kidnapping to brutally crack down on Hamas members in the West Bank and to re-arrest former security prisoners who had been released during the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap.
As Israeli public pressure to find the teens reached a fever pitch, right-wing Israeli politicians began to pressure Netanyahu to launch a military operation against Gaza. As Goldberg noted:
In Gaza, leaders went underground. Rocket enforcement squads stopped functioning and jihadi rocket firing spiked. Terror squads began preparing to counterattack Israel through tunnels. One tunnel exploded on June 19 in an apparent work accident, killing five Hamas gunmen, convincing some in Gaza that the Israeli assault had begun while reinforcing Israeli fears that Hamas was plotting terror all along.
On June 29, an Israeli air attack on a rocket squad killed a Hamas operative. Hamas protested. The next day it unleashed a rocket barrage, its first since 2012. The cease-fire was over.
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