| The missile attack in Gaza - opinion |
Well, since some of you asked I might just as well post my opinion. I’ll be quick about it though, got an exam on sunday and I’ve got to learn more…
First, I don’t think anyone question, or should question, the targeting of cheif terrorists by the Israeli army. By definition, eliminations attack (reffered as “pointed elimination” in israel) isn’t being done against every terrorist, only the ones considered “ticking bombs” accoriding to intelligence (not stopping them immediatly means a terror attack is going to happen within hours). So, I feel no problem with the attemt to eliminate Salah Sh’hada (which, accroding to what been said, was the original founder of the Hamas military arm and served as it’s head commander).
However, there WAS a serious failure in this operation. According to the israeli media reports, the intelligence report handed out to the decision makers (ever pointed elimination must be approved by government members, the army can’t approve such a thing) said the effect of the bomb on the other buildings around will be “minor”. As we know now, that intelligence report was wrong.
The israeli media keeps reffering to the operation as a planing failure. The target was to destroy the whole house, they say, and smaller bombs wouldn’t work. However they were surprised from the amount of damage the bomb has made. The army notes that only this week an operation to eliminate Sh’hada was cancled since he was with a family member, and the F-16 returned to base without doing anything. So the failure was with realizing the amount of damage that specific bomb will do, there was no attempt to hurt civilians.
I still think ‘ticking bomb’ should be eliminated if that’s the only safe way to stop them. Just for general information, the Israeli army cancels operations more then once on grounds of risking civilians life. This operation wasn’t done corrcetly and cleanly, that’s my opinion. Civilians should NOT be hurt from army operations (unless they aid terrorism, in which case I won’t count them as civilians anymore). About the word that there was an agreement forming up to stop terror attacks - I wouldn’t bother even regarding it. Since 1997 the palestinians organizations been signing agreements and not respecting them, so I, personally, have absolutly no trust in any paper they sign on.
The current situation in the palestinian territory is total chaos. Everyone trys to take care for himself only. Armed melitia controlling the streets when IDF isn’t there, the PA have no control. I believe another country (not israel nor palestinians) have to come there an FORCE a strong government. It might be one of the arab countries, I don’t care, though it seems the US have already taken the role.
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civax, Please dont think of me as radical or unusial, but what I am going to suggest will sound a little bazzare. The last thing that terrorist like is being passed off as a single aggressor with an insane mind and alot of personal problems. If the attention is deverted from being
recorded as an act from a group, to a crime from a crazy person , the group of terrorist lose their idenity as a group. I still belive though, both Israel and Pallistine are fighting an inherited war. The events may change, and the reasons may very from person to person, but, hate, and death is the same as it was 5000 years ago. Perhaps one day we all stop where we are and realize that fighting has been usless and that we will lose nothing when we find out how precious a gift, that life really is.
Well, first, I didn’t really get the ‘5000 years ago’ part. The conflict between israel and the palestinians is about 100 years old, that’s all. It’s not an ‘eternal war’ or anything, and the original dispute is the good old plain "that’s OUR land" dispute, people just packed religion and revenge over it along the years.