The Killing Machine Pursues "justice" Israeli Style.

I'm glad, as a Christian, that with Jesus Christ's teachings, we've gotten beyond this eye-for-an-eye, "you take three of ours; we'll kill 10 times that of yours...", Old Testament mentality.

"The IOF will not tolerate attempts to harm our [Israeli] citizens and soldiers, and will operate against all elements that instigate terror* against the State of Israel," the military said following the strike.

*and then some!

It doesn't work, going off half-cocked, angry for revenge.
It makes the innocent hate you for wrongly killing uninvolved others. Collective punishment raids kill; they're not targeted to mete out justice between the guilty and the innocent.

Still, this is how the Israeli military pursues "justice", in the 21st century. Using live fire inside a crowded refugee camp, shooting dead teenage rock throwers, because the soldiers allegedly fear their own lives are in danger:

The violence was also a sign of the growing escalation in the West Bank as Israel’s search for the three Jewish seminary students entered its second week. The teen killed Friday was the second Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops this week.

Israel has blamed the Islamic militant Hamas group for the apparent abduction, but has offered no proof.

But never let a good crisis go unused to advance your political aims, as Rahm Emanuel would say.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has used the search to promote two other objectives — a new crackdown on Hamas and an attempt to discredit the Palestinian unity government formed earlier this month by Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and supported by Hamas.

Boom, boom, boom, boom...

The military also said it carried out airstrikes on in Gaza overnight, in retaliation to several rockets fired by Gaza militants at Israel. The army said it targeted sites from where rockets had been launched and a weapons storage facility.

Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra said six people were lightly hurt in the airstrikes, including four children.

Since the escalation erupted over the teens’ disappearance, 16 rockets have been fired at Israel, the army said. A house was damaged but there were no injuries.

Sadly, the Israeli Army must think that killing flies with a bazooka makes them look fierce. Someone ought to tell them, they look weak killing children armed only with rocks, and in the end, do their cause more harm than good. Hold your fire?

Plus, with Israel's history of deception, could it be that the three are somewhere hidden safely under Israeli care, and Israel has manufactured this "crisis" of their missing boys simply to promote their own aims? The fact that I'm even asking the question tells you how little respect the Netanyahu government has earned from Americans who have watched his actions closely over the years.


Jesus Christ.
When, if ever, will the killing cycle end?