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    • Hamas have just announced that of the 62 killed on the border, 53 were members of jihadist terrorist organizations.

      See https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-official-50-of-the-people-killed-in-gaza-riots-were-members/

      this rather blows away all your righteous indignation that the IDF were massacring innocents. Rather it demonstrates that the IDF probably prevented a massacre of Israeli innocents.

      and regarding the anti semtism issue. People only care when Palestinian lives are taken by Jews kind of proves my point. That the lives of Jews were demonstrably saved from terrorists by the IDF is apparently totally unimportant to you. And, as I pointed out, the fact that far more Palestinians have been killed by ISIS and Assad in Syria has never raised a murmur of protest which goes to show that people seem to be only interested in condemning the country where half the worlds jews live.

      You need to look deeply into your hearts.

      • This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by avatar-image martin .
    • My personal experience (and it is only that), is that there seems to be an attitude of entitlement without effort.


      @kevinj
      To argue their corner, I think they more than other generations have been assaulted by media images of everyone else “making it” and are acutely aware of how, taking the slow gradual approach to career progression that might have worked for their parents generation, will potentially result in them never “getting there”.

      The plodding route of a single job for life, with no higher-education requirement, and a gold plated pension at 55 is long gone. Uncertainty and anxiety for the future regardless of how hard you work, despite all our medical advances and relative security, probably does weigh on the minds of youth.

      I have no doubt, just like youth throughout history, if required to don fatigues and carry a rifle in to combat, within a short few days they will display all the resiliance their ancestors did. The circumstances allow nothing less. The situation maketh the man, and all that.

    • Everyone knows a war is chaotic. Sh*t happens. What is happening there is certainly chaotic. And, I think, intended to be. As far as I can make out there are 3 areas. At the back is more peaceful with woman and children and first aid tents. (If chanting kill the Jews can count as peaceful). Hamas is busing people there. and displaying this to the media. In front of this is a line of burning tires to hide young men with catapults and kites to burn Israeli fields. They also perform dramatically for the media. Then out from the smoke are occasional attempts to run forward and break the fence, and throw grenades and molotov cocktails. Those in this area the one that are at most risk of being shot. (So no international media). Note that almost all those killed are young men, and (according their death notices in the Arab media) activists in Jihadi movements.

      Again, there is no need for any of this. Hamas – look after you people. Please!

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