And it's gone ...

[Loren Pechtel]

Simple:

Terrorist: Aims at civilians.

Freedom fighter: Aims at military forces and/or government.

While terrorists may aim at the occasional military target freedom fighters almost never aim at an inappropriate target.

Note that collateral damage does not count, misses do not count, misidentified targets do not count. What counts is what the guy doing the aiming believes is under the crosshairs.

Even if they are entirely inappropriate. Your problem is that you do not accept that the Palestinians have any rights to defend themselves. Being as Palestine has NO MILITARY, has not been allowed to become a country (hence no government) ALL THE CASUALTIES OF THE IDF ATTACK ARE CIVILIANS. It is not a war. It is a slaughter and we are deeply invested.

1) Aiming at civilians is not self defense.

2) They most certainly do have a military. It's not called an army but it waddles and quacks.

You and Derek seem to seethe with resentment for these terribly oppressed people in Gaza. Come off it! It is not only destructive. It also is unbecoming of a civilized person to hate so utterly and to believe some people are pure evil.

And herein lies the problem--you aren't willing to believe the evil of Hamas so you ascribe the evil to Israel instead.

And I have sympathy for the oppressed of Gaza. I just recognize that their oppressors are Hamas and the Arabs, not Israel.

 

[Derec]

Yet another time Hamas violates the cease fire.
Rockets fired at southern Israel hours before temporary cease-fire deadline

I do not think peace is possible as long as Hamas runs things in Gaza.