Is Isreal simply protecting themselves

Israel is targeting the people of Gaza, apartment buildings, the media. The death count is 20 to 1. If you were punched in the face would it be fair to kill 5 people. Are the Palestinians caught in the middle of Hamas and Israel.

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Graylight · 51-55, F

This is an issue so steeped in history, religion and political strife that anyone even pretending to clearly see all angles or have a solution based on analysis of the situation is a fool. This matter isn't for the citizens of the US who don't have ties to the area.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Graylight Don't have ties to the area? The Zionist movement is bankrolled almost entirely by American evangelicals. They even brag about it.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I understand this, and there are reasons I don't work in diplomatic politics. I don't feel money should be driving decisions that affect some cultures. But such is not the way of the world.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Graylight Agreed. Part of my family is from Ireland and most of the guns and money for the "Troubles" came from Boston from people who had only seen Ireland on a postcard.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Me, too. And it's years of well-intentioned but uninformed actions on the part of others that have helped prolong the issues in the past with Ireland. I have to imagine it goes on all around the world, including Israel in Palestine.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Graylight Yeah. My best friend is from what used to be Yugoslavia and 25 years later most Americans still have no idea what a Serb is.