@ Renzulli’s Hasbara techniques

The Israeli fight for survival & right to exist mantra [insert violins here].  Yeah, and some of those “skirmishes” were the ones that created terrorism in the ME. 

Just curious, if it is so okay for the Israeli soldiers to conduct such actions, why isn’t it okay for the opposition to defend themselves against them?  Better yet, why is it not okay for others to do exactly what the IDF is doing? 

I think, Renzulli, that Israel’s actions have proven that it is Israel that is “determined to destroy other civilizations” and not the other way around.  The Palestinians are proof of it.  And so are the Lebanese.  And the rest of the Israel’s unfortunate “neighbors.”  Whatever makes Israel’s actions so justified?  The fact that you are getting paid to say so or the fact that Israelis are self-appointed god’s “Chosen People”?

“The enemy in question has no regard for human life including the well being of their own. Israel's military is doing exactly what it should be doing: responding to force with force.”  This one is a screamer.  Yeah, really, Israel proves itself over and over again on this one and leaves the thousands of dismembered bodies of women and children behind to prove it (see Lebanon and Gaza).  One that lives by the sword, like Israel, can only expect to die by the sword.

By the way, Renzulli, don’t you feel just a little sick in your stomach spewing such garbage for money?  And, dude, with a name like Renzulli.  You must be a shame to good Catholics everywhere!

 Wow!  The winds have changed at Freedomsphoenix.  It was only a few months back (before the Flotilla fiasco, of course) that saying anything remotely critical of Israel would have earned the poster a noose around his/her neck but look at you now!  You've come a long way, baby!  Be proud!

In a domestic sense I would agree. However, the Israelis have had to fight numerous wars and skirmishes just to be able to continue to exist. There is no justification to diminish the conduct of soldiers in wartime when it comes to actions like this. None of the villagers were killed. They were run out of their homes and their town/village obliterated. If you fight an enemy determined to destroy your civilzation (such is what Islamists want to do to us and Israel) then tactics like this are completely justified. The enemy in question has no regard for human life including the well being of their own. Israel's military is doing exactly what it should be doing: responding to force with force.

Re: previous comment, innocent people, especially children, do not deserve to be be rendered homeless because their villages or neighborhoods also happen to be home to criminals. We don't raze an entire neighborhood every time cops accuse it of harboring a gang member; if we followed that principle in our own country most of Los Angeles would be in ruins.

Geography, in other words, does not create culpability. This same kind of collectivist nonsense is used to justify the actions of murderers who crash airplanes into buildings and drop bombs on weddings. The accusation that criminals may be present is irrelevant; harming people unrelated to a crime in pursuance of a criminal is a crime itself, and is unforgivable, regardless of the weight of the accusation.

If the Israelis do raze a village or destroy homes it is usually since their military or intelligence having determined that the place in question has been harboring terrorists or complicit in assisting them. This is a moral and regular practice on the part of IDF in places like Gaza since nearby Israeli villages were the subject of terrorist attacks by ground. It was at that point the Israelis erected their border wall. Soon after doing so, the ground attacks stopped. What is being spewed by the bedouins the author quotes is nothing but lies and outright crap.