The difference is that you see injustice in the way Israel behaves towards Palestinians, and while I can sympathise with that to an extent, I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as you think it is, and I see a far bigger injustice in the way the media and the UN portrays Israel.
The media might be on a bandwagon, but I can't see why the UN would be playing favouritism. Israel is a member state of good standing correct?
Then there's the strategic importance of Israel. Now more important than ever. You'd expect that in return for being so nicely strategically placed, that the UN would like to keep Israel sweet. Yet despite the best efforts of the US trying to veto stuff left and right, we have information about Israel slipping out, it must be very frustrating for Washington and the Israeli government both.
I've seen what you said about the Goldstone report already. Sure it may have been a botched job, but you know the conditions that the investigation was conducted under, hardly optimal. Why did they refuse the thing in the first place if they have done nothing wrong. Why won't they allow their military to talk? Israel knew that there was simply too much to cover up and stonewalled the whole thing.
You deny being an apologist, but it looks very much to me like the actions of an apologist when you lazily label important independent reports as "exaggerated" This gets back to what I was talking about earlier. There are so many different charities and organizations are all exaggerating and innacurate to the detriment of Israel, and never to the detriment of Palestine. It makes no sense.
The way Israel has acted in this conflict militarily has always been wrong. They should be treating this as modern warfare since they are fighting a modern enemy. You do not need tanks and bombs and air support to combat terrorists. Do things like that, and you're just going to end up with a ton of civillian casualties and all of the problems that causes, one of which being lack of international support. However the way Israel (and the US) conduct their warfare seems to indicate they don't give a damn about international opinion. Doesn't stop Israel complaining that it is against them though.
Israel needs to change it's strategy if it wants a real solution to this whole thing. The ball really is in their court, as the Palestinian people have no way of controlling Hamas, and nothing to bargain with. Israel has the money, the hardware, and intelligence agencies capable of putting together a good counter terrorism force, which could combat Hamas surgically, but totally lacks the political will to do so, because Israeli politics is too heavily influenced by the stubborn old Zionist fools.
Basically if Israel sorted out their military response, and treatment of the average Palestinian citizens, there would be no need to worry about the western media, or contents of UNHRC, Red cross, or Amnesty reports.
[edit on 9-11-2009 by Lazyninja]
