EDIT: Blog Post;
How to criticise Israel without seeming ant-Semitic.
Possibly of more interest to some members than others...
I see the issue, the problem is that most Israelis are actively supporting this (namely people who were shelled in the past during the Intifadas), but failing to understand the human value and consequences of these acts.
Jews from outside Israel really do condemn this (me having to visit the local arab town every two weeks, where basically Palestineans, Syrians, Egyptians and Israelis hang around in their fabric selling business). So for me is more of a generalized hate for Israelis (not Jews) failing to understand the measure of retaliation.
In the past, specially when Israel set up offensives in 2002 and 2005, I did saw some general condemnation from the Israeli population towards the retaliatory actions by their own cabinet and military, Jews haven't been the problem, Israelis are.
Nowadays looking at them taking seats to watch the bombs fall, at the next day see an hospital bombed and the continue with the striking operations is not even human. I do understand that Hamas has wanted to kill Israelis (either by retaliatory action or by their own interest), but Israel is far more advanced, far more capable and far larger to actually generate a carpet-bombing operation that will likely end up with a lot of civilian casualties (which has been proven).
I do remember in 1991 during dessert storm the atrocity that some events took place (namely the
Amiriyah shelter bombing incident) which were condemned and US actively apologized for them even if they resulted as a side effect of military targets sided with civilian shelters.
Gaza is pretty small and in some ways overpopulated, any military commander could assert that a bombing operation is a bad idea due to the huge toll in non combat casualties, yet both the cabinets and military high command give a go to this kind of thing, while is not being condemned by Israel population itself, which just demonstrates that Israelis themselves are pro-actively supporting this and forcing it.
Over 800 Palestinians killed while Israel loses 36 just shows how ridiculous this whole situation is. I particularly like how the cease fire is pin pointed towards Hamas which at this point are defending themselves from the Israeli offensive, which might end in additional territory to be gained.
Israelis are not evil but opportunistic, play the injured party, then bully over the opposition and see themselves as the aggressors to then gain some territories as the hostilities warm down, then some international condemnation over territories gained but not much fuzz about it.
Which is why I sustain that they should be just attacked by an outsider force better armed and better sourced than Hamas, because Israel has gotten away with it far too many times at the light of a more civilized world, maybe it will be Syria, maybe Iran, maybe ISIS, maybe someone else.
At the end of the day I might be cheering towards those aggressors, because Israelis stopped caring about the human value of Palestinians in the Gaza strip for decades now, and they should be punished for it, is not the diplomatic way in which things should develop in this world, but is how things will work for them.
