Zobel said:
no one is saying no significant action should be taken, another convenient straw man.
how the hell can you say that the annihilation of a group of people is a straw man and then follow up with "If the people in Gaza support this regime, they should be destroyed" in the next breath?
the entire premise of your post absurdly ignores the fact that the "prison" is of Israel's making.
Maybe I should have specified -- if the "group of people" are evil terrorists, then yes I am in support of them being destroyed.
If however the group of people are innocents being held captive by this evil regime, then they should be liberated.
Standing by and doing nothing is not a solution. Half-measures are not a solution -- the last few decades have proven that.
And there are 1.7 million Muslims living in the State of Israel, mostly in peace. Additionally Gaza is bordered by Egypt, who also has closed it's borders to them. Additionally many of the country that previously accepted in Palestinian refugees no longer do so (due in large to refusal to assimilate as well as in many cases attempt to overthrow the government).
If you are blaming Israel for the creation of this "prison", then you haven't been paying attention to the last 50 years of world history.
Now, that's not to say they are blameless in this entire conflict -- whether going back to it's origins or pulling certain strings politically to keep certain things the way they want it (like the US and every other government in the world does behind the scenes).
But anyone still blaming Israel for the plight of the people in Gaza either are wholly uninformed of the history or consciously choosing to ignore it.
