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Originally posted by Adder
Are they really defending themselves? Didn't this whole thing start over the kidnapping of a single Israeli soldier? Is invading Gaza and targetting its democratically elected (if despicable) government really proportionate? I have not seen reliable numbers, but it seems safe to assume that tens of Palestinians were killed in effort to save one soldier. Regardless of the fact that such killing were directly counter productive, doesn't it seem at all unjust to you?
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Sorry, forgot to respond to this one.
I reject the notion that the victim of attacks needs to respond with what you call "proportion". Israel does not have to limit its actions to "you kidnapped one person, so we'll kidnap one" or "you killed one, so we'll kill one." No more than I think the US should have limited operations in Afghanistan to killing 3000 people or knocking down a few buildings -- after all, that's "all" they did to us.
I believe in very heavy and painful retaliation to these sorts of attacks.
