duffer
Well-Known Member
Let's just say for once, that the IDF are telling the truth (this bearing in mind that it's an organisation with a long and proven history of misinformation), then there's still a massive amount of hypocrisy in their approach.
If you watched the BBC last night, the IDF spokesman was outraged at Jeremy Bowen for even suggesting it might be an Israeli strike. Outraged that he thought they might even do such a thing.
Basically what he was saying was that the IDF doesn't bomb hospitals because they know that deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure isn't something civilised democracies can do.
Obviously in the meantime though, the IDF and the Israeli state is preventing water, power, and medical supplies from getting to hospitals - so they are clearly and openly preventing civilians from receiving urgently needed medical care.
Personally, I can't see this as much different to dropping a bomb on them, the inevitable deaths and suffering will just take a bit longer.
To me, it's a war crime in progress, plain and simple, and much as we should support Israel's right to defend itself from terrorism, we can't support that defence in itself becoming an even larger act of terror.
If you watched the BBC last night, the IDF spokesman was outraged at Jeremy Bowen for even suggesting it might be an Israeli strike. Outraged that he thought they might even do such a thing.
Basically what he was saying was that the IDF doesn't bomb hospitals because they know that deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure isn't something civilised democracies can do.
Obviously in the meantime though, the IDF and the Israeli state is preventing water, power, and medical supplies from getting to hospitals - so they are clearly and openly preventing civilians from receiving urgently needed medical care.
Personally, I can't see this as much different to dropping a bomb on them, the inevitable deaths and suffering will just take a bit longer.
To me, it's a war crime in progress, plain and simple, and much as we should support Israel's right to defend itself from terrorism, we can't support that defence in itself becoming an even larger act of terror.