What do you expect from a UN that criticizes Israel night and day and seldom says a word about the actions of Hamas?

If the UN wants credibility, they need to start playing it down the middle.

Considering that Hamas uses civilian infrastructure - schools and hospitals - as military staging areas, then I'm sure Israel knew what they may potentially be hitting with their munitions - that being a HAMAS military staging area that is also used for other purposes.

Look, Israel says the UN was harbouring terrorists (or the UN school was). If this is true, why not get proof and show the whole world, it would certainly convince us that bat down the middle that the UN was breaking it's own rules. Israel did not because it was a manufactured lie.

[edit on 7/1/2009 by redled]

Both sides are EQUALLY to blame for this war going on. It really makes no sense for people to be taking sides on an online message board.

Fact of the matter is, warfare has changed. "Soldiers" fight in civilian clothes and launch attacks from civilian buildings and areas. Thus, innocent people are going to die. Thats just the way it goes.

I doubt Israel, the U.S., or any other one of the "bad guys", as most of you like to refer to them as, are intentionally trying to kill civilians. You need to protect your interests, and as brutal and insensitive as it sounds, that's going to include killing the innocent to kill the enemy.

Unless the world goes back to fighting battles as they were fought back in the days of Rome, hand to hand and on a predetermined battlefield, we're going to keep blowing up and killing anything in our ways.

And don't act like if the roles were reversed, and say Iran or another country had the means to extend their influence like the U.S., that they wouldn't.

Wolrd Peace is an ideal. It will NEVER happen. We are too greedy as humans and someone will always be looking for power.

Although I may not agree with every thing the U.S. does, I am proud to be an American, and I want my country to do everything necessary to keep us among the top countries in the world.

if hamas fighters were firing from a UN school, and there is proof of it, i would suggest that hamas were wrong. however, israel hasn't actually provided this proof.

at the moment, all we know for sure is that a UN school was hit and approx 40 civilians were killed. israel knew it was a UN school, they had the co-ordinates and there were big blue flags on the roof.

besides, if israel did nothing wrong they won't have any problem accounting for their actions, what's the issue with an investigation?

Originally posted by pieman
if hamas fighters were firing from a UN school, and there is proof of it, i would suggest that hamas were wrong. however, israel hasn't actually provided this proof.

at the moment, all we know for sure is that a UN school was hit and approx 40 civilians were killed. israel knew it was a UN school, they had the co-ordinates and there were big blue flags on the roof.

besides, if israel did nothing wrong they won't have any problem accounting for their actions, what's the issue with an investigation?

It's worse than that. I know what I am about to say is outrageous but in war life does have a price. It would have been worth a few rockets being photographed coming from this school. The UN is supposed to be utterly impartial, and if it is taking sides then there should be resignations right to the top, and Israel has propoganda victory of the century. They're not stupid in Israel and would have sensed this, so methinks big lie.

Was it a UN ambulance? No, you are trying to fudge the issue and distort the truth. Did rockets come from a UN school? Did this double life geez ever bring his terrorism into that school? Was he so senior that it was worth killing 30 innocent kids to get him there, and since they were monitoring him, not his home? This all smacks of Zionist conspiracy. Israel should have held it's own internal investigations on this before condemning the UN, really.....

LOL

Like I posted, some people who don't want to know the truth won't believe it even when it is presented right to them.

The two video's of Gaza terrorists launching rocket/mortar attacks from schools is MORE than enough reasonable proof that Gaza terrorists DID launch attacks from a school.....again.