It's simple, Hamas has left the stage in the shadow.
It's all about the body count.If Hamas would have a higher number to show for in counting dead Israeli civilians then they would take the podium.
But they can't, they are a joke, with their little rockets.Who the hell cares about Hamas the news source would say, look at Israel, it's droping bombs and kills tens of civilians per day.

Number one on the podium claims more lives.Same on an idividual level, a serial killer has more atention than others that commit crimes.

Israel is worth of the number one possition on the podium, special effects, smoke with fire burning people, masacre by arial bombardment that blow up 30 people to pices in an instance, killing kids , women.

How do you want Hamas to take the podium?
Hamas is just an evil child compared to Israel.

The body count says it all.

No one sympathises with Hamas. Everyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together knows they're bad. But Israel are way worse at the moment.

People are sympathising with the innocent men, women and children of Palestine being murdered every day.

They are sypathising with people being burnt by White Phosphorus.

They are sympathising with the aid workers and UN employees that are being targetted.

They are sympathising for the hospital workers and teachers blown up while trying to save and protect people.

And for the mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters and brothers that have lost their family, home, job and life through this.

1. Israel is targetting densely populated areas, has deliberately hit UN and other aid agency buildings, has FIRED upon medics (at least 13 killed!) and ambulances, and doesn't show any sympathy killing civilians! HAMAS has killed civilians with their rockets, but not deliberately, they dont have the technology to AIM them properly!

2. Israel is using white phosphorous rounds as a chemical weapon. The use of chemical weapons, ESPECIALLY in densely populated areas is banned in the Geneva Convention (as well as in human decency).

3. Israel has one of the most modern militaries in the world, whereas HAMAS is a bunch of volunteers running around with AK-47s and homemade rockets. Israel is using far more force than necessary. Like if you shot someone because they gave you a few wet willies.

4. The numbers. 1000 Palestinians dead, at LEAST half civilians, including women and children, countless wounded, not just injured, LIMBS blown off, burns from WHITE PHOSPHOROUS to 80% of their bodies (I've seen the videos). Versus like 15 Israeli deaths, some even due to friendly fire!

And finally: from the news I've seen, Israel gets all the sympathy! All the north american governments (specifically Canada and Amerika) support Israels "right to defend itself"!! In Europe too! They all make Israel look like the victim here.

It's people like you who give stoners a bad name.

That you are even asking such a ridiculous question shows your ignorance. I'm not even sure why I am responding but if you actually want to learn some truth look up the answer to the Jewish question. It's really not that hard to figureo ut.

Originally posted by Nammu
The body count says it all.

No one sympathises with Hamas. Everyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together knows they're bad. But Israel are way worse at the moment.

People are sympathising with the innocent men, women and children of Palestine being murdered every day.

They are sypathising with people being burnt by White Phosphorus.

They are sympathising with the aid workers and UN employees that are being targetted.

They are sympathising for the hospital workers and teachers blown up while trying to save and protect people.

And for the mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters and brothers that have lost their family, home, job and life through this.

Innocent men and women my a$$! Those people elected Hamas into their leadership knowing fully well what they stood for! The only innocent Palestinians are the children! The only read tragedy is that any Palestinian children are being killed because their parents are too stupid to elect sensible leaders that would have kept them safe, not continued on some blood-lust mission to destroy Israel!

Originally posted by sos37
Innocent men and women my a$$! Those people elected Hamas into their leadership knowing fully well what they stood for! The only innocent Palestinians are the children! The only read tragedy is that any Palestinian children are being killed because their parents are too stupid to elect sensible leaders that would have kept them safe, not continued on some blood-lust mission to destroy Israel!

This is probabbly the most ignorant response I have ever read!

Rather than take you to task for your obvious lack of any historical knowledge on the subject, I will simply ask you to mobilize that lump between your ears and start doing some research. Here are a few keywords that you may want to start with: Zionist World Congress, Lawrence of Arabia, Irgun, Stern Gang, and Mossad.

Maybe when you know something about it we can have an intelligent discussion. Thanks.

Because they take turns doing things to each other. When the suicide bombers were doing their thing, Hamas and their likes were the bad guys. Now that Israel responded with what many feel is a disproportional force, they are now viewed as the Bad guys. In case you haven't noticed, all casualties are assumed to be caused by Israel, when in reality Hamas could have caused many of those casualties as well.

i have no sympathy for hamas. i feel for the innocent palestinians that israel is slaughtering.

hamas are religious nutbags.
israel are savage rascist animals.
the losers in this whole conflict are the palestinian civilians who just want to live in peace.

clearly it's antisemitism dressed up as caring what happens to the palistinians, i mean ffs, the palistinians are nothing but untermensch scum, who gives a crap about them, really.

the jewish fatherland needs room to expand and, in truth, the land presently occupied by the palistinians is really israelli anyway. it was stripped from them by the unreasonable infliction of cruel terms of surrender in november 1918.

the jewish people will establish an empire that will last a thousand years but first, the palistiian question must first be answered, and all muslims must be ousted from the land that is, by the will of god, the birth right of the jewish people.

Originally posted by pieman
clearly it's antisemitism dressed up as caring what happens to the palistinians, i mean ffs, the palistinians are nothing but untermensch scum, who gives a crap about them, really.

the jewish fatherland needs room to expand and, in truth, the land presently occupied by the palistinians is really israelli anyway. it was stripped from them by the unreasonable infliction of cruel terms of surrender in november 1918.

the jewish people will establish an empire that will last a thousand years but first, the palistiian question must first be answered, and all muslims must be ousted from the land that is, by the will of god, the birth right of the jewish people.

Blocked, ignored and never to be seen again. That is the worst post I've ever encountered on ATS.

good lord, worst ever, why? i thought it was perfectly in line with a lot of crap i've been reading the last few weeks.

Originally posted by pieman
good lord, worst ever, why? i thought it was perfectly in line with a lot of crap i've been reading the last few weeks.

Ha ha, I think I misunderstood your post. Next time, you should put a emotion thing at the end of your post to save confusion.

you're gonna catch your death of cold running around dressed like that.

so, any proof that hamas did any of that?

Its what the media's been reporting, and what's been reported on here. On here when the news hit that Israel bombed a UN School it didn't take long for people too show it was because Hamas used them as a rocket base. And if Hamas met the IDF on the battle field instead of hiding behind civillians there would be no dead civillians.