Why are Palestinian apologist so worked up about Israel defending itself.
No one denies Israel the right to defend itself. But not everything Israel does is a matter of self defense. Some of it is oppression, theft of land and resources, and collective punishment of a captive population. That's what gets criticized around here.
If an apologists home was attacked every six months and a member of their family was injured or killed each time, would the apologist keep turning the other cheek????
Maybe a pacifist. Not many others would. And that's the problem, isn't it?
Who gets shot, bombed, beaten, and abused more often and with more fatal results, the Israelis or the Palestinians? I can link you to stories of Palestinian schoolchildren being stoned by settlers in Hebron day after day as they walk to school. I can link to stories of Palestinians kids shot on their way to school, including a girl who was lying helpless and crying on the ground when an Israeli soldier emptied his pistol into her, and another shot in the head by a settler in a drive by shooting. I can link to stories of Palestinian farmers helpless to stop the uprooting of their orchards, the walling off of their fields, the destruction of their wells. I can link to stories of people killed by missile strikes, artillery shells, or IDF explosives as they watched TV or stood in their homes. I can link to stories of sick and injured Palestinians who died because the IDF would not allow their family members to take them to hospitals, including one woman who was left lying on the floor of her home bleeding to death in front of her children during a raid that yielded nothing. All of these things happened before the current fighting. None of them had anything to do with Hamas.
So tell me, do you expect them to turn the other cheek? Or do you expect them to take up arms and defend themselves and their families?
What the Israelis suffer in terrorist attacks and rocket fire from Gaza is awful. What the Palestinians suffer every single day is worse. Ashkelon on a bad day is a walk in the park compared to Gaza on a good one. The sheer amount of human suffering in Gaza and the West Bank is so far beyond what Israelis go through there's almost no comparison. And yet, those who cry the loudest for the civilians under rocket fire are the ones cheering the loudest when civilians come under missile and tank fire.
If the roles were reversed and it was Israeli Jews trapped in Gaza and Muslim Palestinians manning the walls, tanks, and artillery, would your opinion of the righteousness of resistance change?
Also, the number of Palestinians who have been killed or injured so far in this conflict which was started by hamas pales into insignificance when one looks at the figures of those killed or maimed by muslims fighting muslims in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Nigeria, Libya, etc. But then these thousands upon thousands victims aren't killed by Israel are they. So it seems that the apologists aren't really worried about Arabs dying as long as it's not Israel killing them!
Let's test your theory. Find somebody to start a thread defending the killings in Iraq, Iran, Syria, etc. or start one yourself and see what happens.