Quote Originally Posted by kettering_baggie View Post
Bull****! Hamas started this current conflict, almost certainly with the assent of Iran. When Hamas butchered all those innocent people they, and Iran, knew full well that retribution would certainly follow. Iran is starting the war and trying to shift the blame on Israel.
I agree with Regis Kets.

Hamas are to blame for igniting this and let’s be honest, they did it in the full knowledge it would probably see Israel try to obliterate both them and Palestine.

Look at the bigger picture though, is it not Israel who have caused the resentment to build up over decades due to the way they have squeezed the Palestinians and refused to recognise them properly and to build a more equitable relationship?

I’ve thought long and hard before saying this and to any of our Jewish posters (if we have any) I don’t mean this to sound the wrong way, but……I do think that the atrocities of the Second World War against the Jews is what seems to give the Israelis a free pass to do as they wish in these circumstances.

The West seems to walk on eggshells when dealing with Israel.