Quote Originally Posted by Xelbair View Post
Ryll - i said I'm skeptical towards Arabian people, not Jews. I don't think that Jews are taking advantage of having been victims(and even if some do - its their damn right after what happened to them). Reading comprehension 101.

But in there we have a case of a real army vs kindergarten.
a) Develop a sense of humor. It doesn't matter whom you, individually, distrust. That article is absurd, but a very good example. Each time the study found a group who doesn't blindly follow Israeli interests, they toss in some random fact that makes the people of that demographic worth loathing or that they are simply misguided.

b) The point is there is a decades-long, multifaceted relations campaign to ensure that the Israelis are always "the good guys," even when they raid aid ships or clearly violate the Geneva conventions by use of white phosphorous weaponry. Or the countless other examples you can find if you look for it.

c) No, it's called asymmetric warfare. One side has RPGs and what barely qualifies as rockets, while the other has CIWS missile defense systems, F-16s and tanks. A practice that the US was criticized for quite a bit during the war in Iraq and the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan. Hamas fires three of their shitty rockets, two damage buildings only, the other kills 2 people, injures 3. In retaliation, the IDF drops a JDAM on a house or office building, cratering an area, killing 11, injuring 20. See the problem?

The Israelis put Palestinians into what are quite blatantly ghettos, refuses to let them leave or travel (without immense hassles), slowly bulldoze those regions for "settlements," and keeps Gaza in particular near poverty levels. Israel runs projections on exactly how many calories of food Gazans need to sit just above malnutrition levels. They control exactly what goes in and out. Food, building materials, etc. That's why Gazans had smuggling tunnels from the strip into Egypt. Thankfully, another Israeli human rights group outed the study's existence. The government claims that they didn't implement those levels of food controls.

I cannot side with a group who does those kinds of things.