T-Shirts Compared to Over 10,000 Acts of Attempted Murder

Posting this here to keep the peace.

Recently John Juan pointed out video and text articles about Israeli soldiers wearing T-shirts that were inappropiate. Most of these stem from the recent Israeli military action in Gaza, coded as Cast Lead.

Yes, the T-shirts are offensive, vile, and shouldn't be made/worn.

Over 10,000 individual mortors, rockets, and acts of viloence preciptated the Israeli action.
Each one of those attempts was not an attempt to commit vandalism, it was an attempt to commit muder. The Israeli operation was an attempt to take away the ability of Hamas' goons to commit those murders.

Critics will say that the "attitude" of the T-shirts is what they are worried about.

I'm more worried about the bullets and bombs.

The critical report of Al-Jizeera imples that any nation willing to allow it's soldiers to act this way must be evil, vile, and seeking the destruction of it's neighboring states. To give AL-Jizeera credit they did report that some soldiers had been disciplined for wearing the shirts, but they also report that some others had gotten away with it.

So, I wonder, if I can apply the standard that T-shirts = evil people who should be punished to anyone that is wearing a shirt I may not like, does that mean the Israeli's have the same right to demand this kind of treatment to those wearing shirts or holding up media (signs) that have the same "kill them all" attitude. Can they demand this kind of justice from Hamas?

Oh wait, Hamas' charter says it will destory the state of Israel and it's televsion stations routinely run shows encouraging children, women, and young men to die in the glorious destruction of the Jewish State.

Hmmm.

Oh, and the Israelis, at least of late ( Lately being any year after 1963 CE ) tend to engage in military actions only after they've been shot at. Where as Hamas, PIJ, and Et. Al. tend to use rockets, mortors, homicide bombers, and terrorists whenever they can and as often as the can.

There is no question that the T-shirts are inappropiate and any soldier wearing one should be disciplined.
There is also no question that qassam missiles, hand grenades, mortor shells, and ak-47 fire are a hell of a lot more deadly than a T-shirt, and are used more often by people willing to attack rather than talk.

Posting Here To Keep The Peace, Darth F I J