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Why should Australia (or any western country) support this barbarous attack on children
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The tone of your question openly displays your bias and inability to consider events rationally.
The Israelis are not conducting a "barbarous attack on children", they are conducting a war against a sworn enemy.
- An enemy which is widely designated a "terrorist entity".
- An enemy which on 7/10 displayed it's willingness and ability to murder Israeli babies, children, women and men and to destroy hundreds of residences; and enemy whose very Charter calls for the elimination of Israel entirely, and of its 7,500,000 Israeli Jews.
- An enemy which is still firing rockets indiscriminately into Israel.
- An enemy which intentionally stores weapons and places combatants in or adjacent to residences, schools and hospitals...even in and under UNWRA and media premises...as proven many times......knowing full well that civilian men, women and children could die during Israeli defensive actions.
So, why don't you pull your head in, get a grip on reality, and acknowledge that sadly, during any war, civilians, as well as combatants, do die.
