The Bear,
You are completely and utterly wrong about the Israelis attacking children, or not.
When I was in Israel/Palestine the Israelis had recently sacked and looted the schools in the refugee camps and they prevented students crossing checkpoints to get to their examinations. The IDF admitted to dropping 24 x 1000lb bombs in 'surgical' strikes after they destroyed a family home in Gaza killing women and children and a baby -yes they got the old man who was a wanted 'terrorist' but they dropped a 1000lb bomb to do it. The Palestinian 'terrorists', some are killers, some are just politicians, are entitled to have families and to live with them, or do you advocate people in a 60 year old struggle to regain the homes stolen at gunpoint should not live with their families for the period of the struggle.
The IDF have admitted to bulldozing over 1500 homes (making 15000 men, women and children homeless) because they 'might' be used for targetting IDF gun emplacements. They ransack people's homes at random, touch up the women to check for 'guns' (they don't always have female soldiers on patrol), they kill unarmed people who try to walk around their checkpoints within the illegally occupied territories (they actually killed a 19 year old Palestinian policeman who worked at the same location as I was working) and commit a thousand and one other abuses.
I have passed through IDF checkpoints and been f@cked around by the pathetic waste's of space that constitute the present day IDF. I have guns pointed at me by IDF 'soldiers' when I was in vehicles bearing US or UK diplomatic plates. The IDF target the elderly, the unarmed, women and children, most of them aren't big enough to target armed men!!!!!!!!!!!! Been there, seen it, done it, got the T-shirt!
Few who live and work in the West Bank for any period of time come back with a high opinion of the Israeli occupation. There is no justification, other than Biblical, for the illegal settlements in the West Bank, contrary to the 4th Protocol to the Geneva Convention. There is no justification for the Israeli law that allows the torture of prisoners, hundreds of whom are under 18 and are children/minors under our law.
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When in Woking do as the Wokes do.
"I do not wish to form my opinions by thoughtlessly quoting others; I wish others to support their opinions by sensibly quoting me." Paul Wesson (Aardvark) 13th April 2008
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