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Normally, I wouldn't be all gung-ho for any country based on a religion.  But when all your neighbors' goal is to erase you from the planet, yeah, you get a waiver.
I'm glad we blindly? support Israel, because NO ONE else will. 

Thanks to religion, we have a never-ending conflict in the middle east.  Great idea!

But I digress. 

Everyone suggesting Israel is going overboard has never experienced an ongoing nuisance.
Once that nuisance that you could destroy in 2 weeks actually hits you hard, an equal retaliation is no longer gonna cut it.
Hamas, you want to fire rockets and mosquito-bite Israel every few weeks or months, whatever, stop it.  Pew-pew.  Go away.

Oh.....Hamas, now you want to invade, kill, kidnap, and hide? 
NOPE.
Israel should show what "full force" looks like, just in case Hamas doesn't realize the absurd amount of restraint they've benefitted from.  Squash the bug.  Kill it, so it can never harm you again.

Dead innocents? 
Talk to Hamas.  The first words out of my mouth the moment I heard they attacked, killed, and kidnapped Israelies was "welp, a lot of innocent Palestinians are going to die."
Because it was guaranteed.  And Hamas guaranteed it with their actions.

Ironically, this is about exactly what I said to my wife when this broke.

The first words out of my mouth the moment I heard they attacked, killed, and kidnapped Israelis was "welp, a lot of innocent Palestinians are going to die."

BTW, this is one point at which it's useful to make a reminder... Everyone, everywhere, is all the damn same.

I call it the "Anthony Bourdain model of the world". On his show, he traveled ALL over the place. Sometimes to glitz and glamour (i.e. Copenhagen). Sometimes to war-torn or otherwise shitholes (Haiti, Cambodia, Cuba, Detroit). He traveled to places that we consider our enemies (Iran) as well as those who are sorta(?) our friends in the shadow of our enemies (Kurdistan).

And you know what his show brought to us? The idea that everyone, everywhere, is the damn same. On the ground. The real people. They're just like us. We're just like them.

They want peace and safety for their families. They want enough freedom to offer a better life for their children. They come together as families or communities and share food, merriment, and grief.

It doesn't matter what side of a border you're on. It doesn't matter what religion your parents are (which is the one you "chose" to believe in, >>90% of the time). It doesn't matter what economic system your nation purports to follow. It doesn't matter what color your skin is. All the stuff we layer on top is bullshit that's fed to us by people who want to control us by dividing us.

Everyone, everywhere, is all the damn same.

Normally, I wouldn't be all gung-ho for any country based on a religion.  But when all your neighbors' goal is to erase you from the planet, yeah, you get a waiver.
I'm glad we blindly? support Israel, because NO ONE else will. 

Thanks to religion, we have a never-ending conflict in the middle east.  Great idea!

But I digress. 

Everyone suggesting Israel is going overboard has never experienced an ongoing nuisance.
Once that nuisance that you could destroy in 2 weeks actually hits you hard, an equal retaliation is no longer gonna cut it.
Hamas, you want to fire rockets and mosquito-bite Israel every few weeks or months, whatever, stop it.  Pew-pew.  Go away.

Oh.....Hamas, now you want to invade, kill, kidnap, and hide? 
NOPE.
Israel should show what "full force" looks like, just in case Hamas doesn't realize the absurd amount of restraint they've benefitted from.  Squash the bug.  Kill it, so it can never harm you again.

Dead innocents? 
Talk to Hamas.  The first words out of my mouth the moment I heard they attacked, killed, and kidnapped Israelies was "welp, a lot of innocent Palestinians are going to die."
Because it was guaranteed.  And Hamas guaranteed it with their actions.

Well spoken, and right on the money. 

Paul Gregory is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of "The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee."

Dude claims he knew Oswald somewhat.