RE: Israeli forces kill medic, wound 100 protesters in Gaza unrest, Palestinian ministry
June 13, 2018 at 9:23 am
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2018 at 9:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I wouldn;t, like I said..I understand why they would pick up a gun or rig a bomb. I;m noting that resorting to terrorism is counterproductive and squanders whatever moral high ground they may be able to purchase. That they do this at the behest of front groups from other regions is the really tragic part. The people stirring up intifada really dont give a shit about palestinians, no more so than israel seems to. They were seen as a useful way to attack israel from within.
That;s the cynical part about launching rockets (or, really, any attack from the soft cover of civilians), from a combatants point of view. You know that the state is going to respond with deadly force, you know there will be collateral in the neighborhoods you fired from...but you don;t care, because you;ll press those dead civilians into your cause after the fact. Parading their corpses before the world and potential recruits for the next round of attacks.
Personally, I;m all out of fucks to give for asymmetric action. The losers in the conflict between jihadists and the state are the palestinians and israelis. In a sad realization of the times we live in, though..this is the future of warfare. Not battles for air control or a stiff firefight between soldiers in a field...but between the forces of the state and combatants leveraging civilians as cover then bitching when their cover gets shot to shit.
Personally, I;d respect them more as combatants if they at least tried to hit targets of military value, rather than hitting civvies to produce terror. There would still be collateral...but that is the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter, after all.
That;s the cynical part about launching rockets (or, really, any attack from the soft cover of civilians), from a combatants point of view. You know that the state is going to respond with deadly force, you know there will be collateral in the neighborhoods you fired from...but you don;t care, because you;ll press those dead civilians into your cause after the fact. Parading their corpses before the world and potential recruits for the next round of attacks.
Personally, I;m all out of fucks to give for asymmetric action. The losers in the conflict between jihadists and the state are the palestinians and israelis. In a sad realization of the times we live in, though..this is the future of warfare. Not battles for air control or a stiff firefight between soldiers in a field...but between the forces of the state and combatants leveraging civilians as cover then bitching when their cover gets shot to shit.
Personally, I;d respect them more as combatants if they at least tried to hit targets of military value, rather than hitting civvies to produce terror. There would still be collateral...but that is the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter, after all.
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