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Originally Posted by tankdriver
That makes the Palestinians no worse than the Israelis.
What is the goal of Israel's retaliation?.
Israel was created, and later seized more, territory from the Palestinians. The Palestinians lost.
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If you want to talk morality which is basically meaningless in this world we live in, yes. The two sides are so locked in a struggle that the only way to end it is for one side to wipe out the other so it won't matter who threw the first punch.
If you don't retaliate, what will happen next? Do you believe the Palestinians will look upon it as restraint? Maybe that and the idea that it might slow down some of the rocket attacks is about all they can hope to do short of systematically eliminating everyone there.
It also ignores the idea that the Palestinians were involved in the war. IIRC, the arabs promised them a share of the take should they help in their attack. As such, that kinda makes them involved in the war. When you lose the war, you lose territory. After that, all we have is still the 2 kids fighting in the backseat. You hit me, I hit you and so on and so forth. They did this, the Israelis did that and so on so they built a wall, etc, etc, etc. Like I said, the only way to end it is for one side to eliminate the other.