It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Umm.. You are seeing where the article says these are fully armed and trained members of the Israeli Defense Force, right? You think there is a snowball's chance in a hot place that they'll ever willingly release footage damaging to their fellow soliders?
"We love death more than you love life." -- Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 and wounding of 30 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, TX
"I want to destroy everything here as they did the Al Aqsa mosque. It's a symbol of occupation. Destroying it is a symbol of Islam." -- Mahmoud Malahi speaking about destroying Jewish settlements in the name of Islam
"We love death more than you love life." -- Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 and wounding of 30 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, TX
"I want to destroy everything here as they did the Al Aqsa mosque. It's a symbol of occupation. Destroying it is a symbol of Islam." -- Mahmoud Malahi speaking about destroying Jewish settlements in the name of Islam
Originally posted by dontreally
The campaign was started because Hamas terrorists were shooting thousands of rockets into Israel leading to the deaths of hundreds of Jewish civilians. Forcing the IDF to respond.
Originally posted by dontreally
Israel is lambasted left,right and center for things that simply aren't happening; genocides, civilian causalities etc.
Hundreds of Jewish civilians? I think you'll find that 15 (from 2001, when the rocket attacks started to 2009) is not hundreds.
And to say they were "forced to respond", as if they'd been sitting idly praying and asking them nicely to stop before that point is a bit funny.
No matter what you say about "following international law" (which they don't- phosphorous attacks and carpet bombing of civilian areas is one example),
LOL... coming from a muslim, or a Muslim apologist, that is HILARIOUS. First, the vast majority, about 70% of IDF soldiers are secular. They could care less what Rabbis have to say. Second, the Purirty of Arms doctrine is a mandatory protocol that every Israeli soldier is trained to follow. If for instance he's shot at from a group of people, he's to wait until the areas cleared before he makes any shot. He's also forced to go to much greater lengths than other soldiers in distinguishing combatants from non-combatants - meaning, they have to wait to be shot at before they shoot back. No military on planet earth instructs their soldiers thusly except Israel.
(which honestly, is just sweet words that mean nothing to the soldiers on the ground, or the hawkish rabbis egging them on),
Painting them as the good guys in this fight (note that I do not call Hamas the good guys either) is laughable.
Originally posted by dontreally
Saying 15 dead is quite misleading given in just 4 short years, between 2000 and 2004, 1,063 Israeli civlians were killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, most of them either of the fatah Al Aqsa brigades or Hamas.
Originally posted by dontreally
Israel doesn't carpet bomb. Where the f.uck do you get that? They did in Lebanon back in 1982 (along with white phosphorus) and you can check UN condemnations of their use of it.
If you think that for every terrorist act, Israel should respond with equal measures, like a boxing competition, than think again.
"Hamas fired a few rockets into Israel. What happens next? Israel decides to start a barrage of missiles”
"Equal eh? “