I don't dispute that. As I said, my post wasn't to defend the actions of the Israeli government or forces over the past few weeks or past decades that this has been going on. I'm also not saying people shouldn't talk about it. But the whole bandwagon jumping is what annoys me, when it's treated like it's black and white - and it isn't a black and white situation.
Are you comparing Nelson Mandela to Hamas? A man, and movement, fighting for racial equality, and an extremist Islamist organisation? Yes, I can apply different rules I think.
The point of having the Iron Dome is clearly because of this threat. Now, whether that threat would be there at all if Israel took a more reasonable approach is obviously what we don't know but hopefully will know in the future - they shouldn't need, or want, to have something like that. But just saying 'oh it's fine if Hamas fire rockets, because Isreal have the defences' - as you've done there, or at least implied - isn't exactly the answer either is it?
I hope there can be peace and I'll reiterate again, I think what the Isreali government do and has done is horrid, evil, whatever you want to call it. But I don't think Hamas would be the best solution for peace in Palestine either... Now the answer is definitely not Israel, but in my mind that doesn't make the solution an extremist organisation.
